Benode Behari Mukherjee

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Benode Behari Mukherjee was a pioneering Indian modernist painter and muralist associated with Santiniketan, known for his innovative visual language and profound influence on 20th-century Indian art.

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instanceOf Indian painter
art educator
modernist artist
muralist
person
associatedWith Bengal School of Art NERFINISHED
Kala Bhavana NERFINISHED
Santiniketan NERFINISHED
Visva-Bharati University NERFINISHED
awardReceived Padma Shri
Padma Vibhushan NERFINISHED
Rabindra Bharati University honorary D.Litt. NERFINISHED
birthDate 1904-02-07
birthPlace Behala, Calcutta, British India NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship India
deathDate 1980-11-11
educatedAt Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan NERFINISHED
employer Bharatiya Kala Bhavan, Benaras Hindu University NERFINISHED
Doon School, Dehradun NERFINISHED
Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan NERFINISHED
familyName Mukherjee NERFINISHED
fullName Benode Behari Mukherjee NERFINISHED
genre collage
landscape painting
mural painting
givenName Benode Behari NERFINISHED
hasWorkInCollection National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi NERFINISHED
Visva-Bharati University collections NERFINISHED
influenced K. G. Subramanyan NERFINISHED
Ramkinkar Baij NERFINISHED
Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED
generations of Indian modernist painters
influencedBy Chinese landscape painting
East Asian art NERFINISHED
Indian miniature painting NERFINISHED
Japanese art
folk art of India
knownFor influence on 20th-century Indian art
innovative visual language in Indian modern art
pioneering mural work in India
teaching at Santiniketan
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
English
medicalCondition blindness in later life
severe myopia
movement Contextual Modernism NERFINISHED
Indian modernism
notableWork Medieval Saints of India mural at Hindi Bhavana, Santiniketan NERFINISHED
Temple mural at Kalabhavan hostel, Santiniketan
collages and paper works created after blindness
landscape paintings of Santiniketan
mural at the Faculty of Hindi, Visva-Bharati
mural at the Hindi Bhavan, Santiniketan depicting Indian medieval saints
mural at the Hindi Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University
occupation muralist
painter
teacher
spouse Leela Mukherjee NERFINISHED
studentOf Nandalal Bose NERFINISHED
Rabindranath Tagore NERFINISHED
subjectOf documentary film "The Inner Eye" by Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED

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Kala Bhavana hasNotableAlumni Benode Behari Mukherjee
Kala Bhavana hasNotableFaculty Benode Behari Mukherjee
Nandalal Bose influenced Benode Behari Mukherjee