Dhiraj Choudhury Explained

Dhiraj Choudhury
Birth Name:	Dhiraj Chowdhury
Birth Date:	September 1936
Birth Place:	Brahmanbaria District, British India (now Bangladesh)
Death Place:	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality:	Indian
Field:	Painting drawing
Spouse:	Leena Chowdhury

Dhiraj Choudhury (September 1936 – 1 June 2018) was an Indian painter. His work was displayed in more than eighty exhibitions, among those sixteen were international painting exhibitions.^{[1] [2]}

Career

Choudhury was born in 1936 in Bengal and took up painting as a budding artist from his childhood. Choudhury taught at the College of Art, New Delhi, during 1961–66.^[3] Choudhury referred to himself as an "aggressive painter" of "life full of misery" having to live through partition. He often expressed his protests against the dowry system, corruption and social inequalities.^[4]

Death

Choudhury died on 1 June 2018, at the age of 82.

Notes and References

1. Canvas of hope in tiger country The Statesman, New Delhi : 7 April 2018
2. News: Art of the matter . The Hindu . New Delhi . Divya . Kumar . 31 July 2011 . 10 February 2019 .
3. News: Dhiraj Choudhury: Celebrating 75 yrs in brush strokes . The Times of India . New Delhi . 28 July 2011 . Shalini . Umachandran . 10 February 2019 .
4. DHIRAJ CHOUDHURY 1936-2018, Artist-activist passes away The Times of India, Kolkata : 2 June 2018