Chintamoni Kar

Chintamoni Kar studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Surendranath College. The recorded working language is Bangla. Employment is recorded with University of Calcutta. Work by Chintamoni Kar is recorded in the collections of Victoria Memorial and National Gallery of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Padma Bhushan and Deshikottam.

• Name — Chintamoni Kar • Born — 19 April 1915 • Birthplace — Kharagpur, British India (present-day Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India) • Died — 3 October 2005 • Place of death — Kolkata, West Bengal, India • Education — Académie de la Grande Chaumière • Awards — Padma Bhushan • Spouse — Amina Ahmed Kar Art competitions

Born on 19 April 1915 in Kharagpur, West Bengal, Kar trained at the Indian Society of Oriental Art run by Abanindranath Tagore. He was taught to sculpt by Giridhari Mahapatra and Victor Giovanelli. Kar moved to Paris in 1938 where he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before moving back to India. Chintamoni Kar was married to Amina Ahmed Kar, who was herself an artist, and her works were largely non-figurative and abstract. The couple had one child. Both members of his family died before Chintamoni, who died on 3 October 2005 in a private hospital at the age of 90.

Kar sculpted with a variety a materials including wood, terracotta, stone, and metal. He was initially trained in an academic and representational style but also produced work of a more abstract nature. Kar taught at the University of Calcutta and the Delhi Polytechnic and then, in 1946, moved to London where he became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He returned to West Bengal in 1956 and was then elected as Principal of the Government College of Art & Craft.

Shortly before his death in 2005 Kar instituted the Bhaskar Bhavan Administration & Maintenance Trust at his residential campus in Narendrapur, Kolkata. It became a public museum on 19 April 2006, what would have been his 91st birthday, and houses the artist's works as well as those of his wife. The trust is active in the verification and documentation of his works along with his collection of books. It also aids poor students in the local area and holds the annual Chintamoni Kar Memorial lecture.

Chintamoni Kar is recorded as having received Padma Bhushan and Deshikottam.

Chintamoni Kar is recorded as having studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Surendranath College. Born in 1915 at Kharagpur.