Meera Mukherjee, born in Calcutta in 1923, is regarded as a pathbreaking Sculptor and Painter who brought modernity to Bengal art. She studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi to complete diploma
Meera Mukherjee, born in Calcutta in 1923, is regarded as a pathbreaking Sculptor and Painter who brought modernity to Bengal art. She studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi to complete diploma in painting, graphics and sculpture. Later she received an Indo-German Fellowship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Meera Mukherjee is considered as an artist who relentlessly portrayed lives of common man. Struggles of fishermen, weavers, peasants and women were recurring subjects of her work. Meera Mukherjee’s work was also deeply infused with symbolism drawn from Indian mythology and motifs. Her exploration of myth and nature was not just a return to tradition but an attempt to re-interpret and re-imagine these symbols in the context of contemporary Indian life.
She was honoured with Padma Shri in 1992. Meera Mukherjee passed away in 1998, at the age of 75.
Academics
Folk Metal Casting with Craftsmen from West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa; Metal Work with Nepali Sakya Craftsmen in 1961-62
Folk Metal Casting with Bastar Gharuas in 1960
Academie de Nildenden Kunstem, Germany, Painting under Prof. Glethe ; Sculpture under Prof. Stadler &h Heinrich Kirchner; Etching under Prof. Thiermann ;Lithography under Prof. Lowasser in 1953-56
Diploma in Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, New Delhi Polytechnic in 1947-51
Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata in 1937-41
Awards
Abanindranath Puruskar, West Bengal Government 1980
President’s Award for Master Craftsman in Metalwork 1967-68
Ladies Study Group, Kolkata 1967
Research Fellowship, Anthropological Survey of India 1965
Scholarship to study at the Bayerische Akademie der Sch nen K nste, Munich 1953
Meera Mukherjee, born in Calcutta in 1923, is regarded as a pathbreaking Sculptor and Painter who brought modernity to Bengal art. She studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi to complete diploma in painting, graphics and sculpture. Later she
Meera Mukherjee, born in Calcutta in 1923, is regarded as a pathbreaking Sculptor and Painter who brought modernity to Bengal art. She studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi to complete diploma in painting, graphics and sculpture. Later she received an Indo-German Fellowship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Meera Mukherjee is considered as an artist who relentlessly portrayed lives of common man. Struggles of fishermen, weavers, peasants and women were recurring subjects of her work. Meera Mukherjee’s work was also deeply infused with symbolism drawn from Indian mythology and motifs. Her exploration of myth and nature was not just a return to tradition but an attempt to re-interpret and re-imagine these symbols in the context of contemporary Indian life.
She was honoured with Padma Shri in 1992. Meera Mukherjee passed away in 1998, at the age of 75.
Academics
Folk Metal Casting with Craftsmen from West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa; Metal Work with Nepali Sakya Craftsmen in 1961-62
Folk Metal Casting with Bastar Gharuas in 1960
Academie de Nildenden Kunstem, Germany, Painting under Prof. Glethe ; Sculpture under Prof. Stadler &h Heinrich Kirchner; Etching under Prof. Thiermann ;Lithography under Prof. Lowasser in 1953-56
Diploma in Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, New Delhi Polytechnic in 1947-51
Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata in 1937-41
Awards
Abanindranath Puruskar, West Bengal Government 1980
President’s Award for Master Craftsman in Metalwork 1967-68
Ladies Study Group, Kolkata 1967
Research Fellowship, Anthropological Survey of India 1965
Scholarship to study at the Bayerische Akademie der Sch nen K nste, Munich 1953
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
Gallerie 88, Kolkata 1997
Art Today, New Delhi 1997
Sculpture & Painting, Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata 1960
Paintings & Sculptures, Kolkata 1952
Painting in Oriental Style, Kolkata 1941
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata 1993
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1981
,94 Gorky Sadan, Kolkata 1980
Sculpture, Gallery Chemould, Kolkata 1966
Kolkata 1941,1952,1960
Group Exhibitions:
‘ Bronze’ , organized by Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2006
‘The Margi and the Desi: Between Tradition and Modernity’, presented by Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2004
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi 1997
