Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (born 1914)

Zainul Abedin

Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of the modern art movement

Zainul Abedin, also known as Shilpacharya was a Bangladeshi painter. He became well known in 1944 through his series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal during its British colonial period. After the Partition of Indian subcontinent he moved to East…