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Qayyum Chowdhury no more

Md Mahfuzur Rahman || risingbd.com

Published: 16:13, 30 November 2014   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Qayyum Chowdhury no more

Qayyum Chowdhury

Staff Correspondent: Eminent artist Qayyum Chowdhury has died at Combined Military Hospital in the capital on Sunday night.

 

He was 80.

 

The celebrated painter died after falling sick at the Bengal Classical Music Festival.

 

After falling sick he was taken to the hospital this evening.

 

After the pioneering artists like Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed his name is the most popular among the first generation artists of Bangladesh.

 

Qayyum Chowdhury was born on March 9, 1934 in an educated and aristocratic family of Feni, Noakhali.

 

Whithin a few years after passing from the Art Institute, he received the national award for his contribution to art (1961–62).

 

In the same year, he received the first prize in the All Pakistan Art Exhibition held in Lahore for his painting titled Bottom.
Four years later, he received the award of the Royal Court inn Teheran Biennale (1966).

 

Shilpakala Academy Award (1977), Ekushey Award (1986),6th Bangabandhu Award (1994), Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Book Illustration (1983), Gold medal for contribution in book design, National Book Center, Dhaka (1975).

 

risingbd/ Nov 30, 2014/ Sujan/Mahfuz/Augustin Sujan

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