Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil · Arts & Literature
Pioneer of modern Indian painting, born to a Hungarian Jewish mother and a Sikh father
30 janvier 1913, Budapest, Hongrie — 5 décembre 1941, Lahore, Inde britannique (auj. Pakistan)
Budapest, Paris, Simla, Lahore
Amrita Sher-Gil is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pioneer of modern Indian painting, born to a Hungarian Jewish mother and a Sikh father
Origins and early life
Amrita Sher-Gil was born on 30 January 1913 in Budapest.
Work and career
Her mother, Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, was a Hungarian Jewish opera singer from an assimilated bourgeois family of Budapest — the fact is recorded by The New York Times and by her biographer Yashodhara Dalmia; her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, was a Sikh aristocrat of the Punjab and a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian. Raised between Hungary and India, she trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, absorbing Gauguin and the post-impressionists, and then did what no one had done: in 1934 she returned to India and turned that European craft on the villages, women and colors of her father's country.
In seven years — Three Girls, Bride's Toilet, the South Indian trilogy — she founded modern Indian painting; the Indian state has declared her works national art treasures, and critics call her the Indian Frida Kahlo. She died in Lahore on 5 December 1941, at twenty-eight, on the eve of her first major solo exhibition.
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Pioneer of modern Indian painting, born to a Hungarian Jewish mother and a Sikh father
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amrita-Sher-Gil
