ZAINUL ABEDIN

Born in an undivided India, Zainul Abedin was a painter and a political activist who was instrumentally involved in the development and advocacy of fine arts in Bangladesh. He studied painting at the Government School of Art in Calcutta from 1933 to 1938, and is most often characterized by his sketches, done with Chinese ink on cheap packing paper, which depicted the great Bengal famine of the 1943. He represented the newly formed Pakistan at the UNESCO art conference in Venice in 1952, and was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Travelling Fellowship in 1956. He won numerous awards throughout his lifetime, including the highest Presidential Award for Pride of Performance from the Government of Pakistan (1958), an honorary degree from the University of Delhi, and an appointment as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1974. In 1975, he founded the Folk Art Museum at Sonargaon, near Dhaka, and Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala, a gallery of his own works in his hometown of Mymensingh. Abedin developed lung cancer and died on May 28, 1976 in Dhaka.

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