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Bireswor Bhattacherjee Bireswor Bhattacherjee (25th of July 1935); is a retired Professor of College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, Bihar, India and an eminent artist presently residing in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Keeping his teaching profession alive, he has made a major contribution in Bihar as an artist and a painter, to develop a platform for Visual Arts for the artists and young talents of Bihar. He has been a student of Applied Arts in the Government School of Arts, now renamed as College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, Bihar. His subject of teachings as an art teacher was Book Cover/Jacket, Illustrations, Posters, Designing, and Painting. Though being a Commercial Art teacher, he was more inclined towards Academic style paintings.

Born in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh (previously East Pakistan), Bireswor lived with his parents, brothers and a sister in a place named Kamalapur. His father Kuleswar Bhattacharya worked as a clerk in Oriental Life Insurance Company in Dhaka. Kuleswar's father Jyotindra Mohan Bhattacharya was an allopathy doctor practicing in Gaya, Bihar India. Bireswor's mother Sebika Bhattacharya was a housewife and her father was a homeopathy practitioner and ran a Pathshala in the village Baghiya under Munshigunj Subdivision of Dhaka District.

In his early childhood days in Kamalapur, the artist had a simple life being with his family and was confined within his academic studies. After returning from school, he was all into doing creative things mainly clay modelling. He gave shape to his creativity working at a secluded location, as devoting time on such work carried less importance and hence, failed fetching parents acceptance. But as a responsible child, he would also extend his hands to help his parents at home, as and when required. During his teaching career for a period of 33 years in the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, he didn't confine himself to teaching only, his main working area was after the college hours. He aimed to bring the artists of Bihar at the National level. While he was student in the Art School he felt that artist of Bihar were never represented outside Bihar State, in spite of the fact that there was no dearth of talents. There were very few occasion for the young artists to see, what is going on in the art field outside the State of Bihar. Bireswor always had been friendly with his students and started taking exhibitions of paintings and sculptures outside Bihar, especially to Delhi. Teacher and students participated together. Exhibitions got good response through media and buyers. Some students after completion of their study settled themselves in Delhi. Mode of teaching took a great change. In 1969 the Professor fetched a Turkish Government Scholarship for Research in Painting. He left India for his research work in Istanbul and joined the Govt. Academy of Fine Arts. He worked under Professor Narullah Berk in his Atelier. After studying in the academy for three months, he held his first exhibition in Sehir Art Gallery, Istanbul. His second exhibition was organised by the then Indian Embassy in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Both the exhibitions received appreciation from viewers and media. He sold a good number of paintings in exhibitions itself. As he had enough to finance himself, he took a tour at some of the European countries like Munich, Paris, Milan, Venice, Belgrade & Athens. He visited important art galleries and experienced the original works of great masters. After his return from abroad, he along with one of his colleagues Mr. Shyam Sharma did some creative activities. They together published an Art newsletter in Inland letters as available from the Indian Post Office in Patna Bihar. The newsletter contained an editorial with information on art movements in the country, a very short poem in Hindi or English, an article on art part by Patna and finally in last page a print of linocut. The newsletter "Triangles voice" became very popular even outside the State of Bihar. The next approach was creative visual representation of Art on floor. There was no dialogue only action, light and a tune on violin created a new form of Art beyond canvas, color, wood, bronze, or clay. In one of the big halls of the Patna Art College, Such representations were done involving few of the college students. Some of the performances were meant to aware people of Patna with civic disorders like for e.g., throwing garbage on road, creating nuisance on the roadside in spite of the fact that there were public urinals available on roadsides. Besides, there were frustrations in Art Students because of unemployment. There were fully abstract or non-representational shows also. Many important personalities like Vice-Chancellor of Patna University, Professors, Writers, Poets and Theater Personalities from in and outside Bihar also took pleasure of the shows. Literature was also published side by side. All these activities were during early seventies. Bireswor also took part in the movement of Jaiprakash Narayan against emergency promulgated by Mrs. Indira Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India. It was done through paintings that were displayed by the side of main road crossings and on the walls of the shops in Patna. The paintings drew such rush that often blocked roads from all sides and created problems for traffic to move properly. The whole movement was published in one of the most popular Hindi weekly named "Dinmari" and one of the Paintings' became its cover page. "Dinmari" was then published New Delhi, the capital of India. In late Seventies, the artist was nominated to the General Council of Central Lalit Kala Akademi (L. K. A.), New Delhi. A pioneer Institution of India for the promotion of Visual Art all through the country. Since then, He was associated with L.K.A. in different capacity, as Executive Board member and member of different subcommittees till 2005. He had also been the member of the Zonal Cultural centers of L.K.A. He was appointed as Art Commissioner for the 3rd Asian Biennale organised at Dhaka in 1990/91. Participated in seminar and read paper. I worked for the promotion of Art on behalf of the State Govt. of Bihar. He was appointed chairman of Bihar Lalit Kala Academy. Several painters' & sculptors' workshops were organised by the artist in the Academy Campus during that period as well as of performing art. Besides, he has received opportunities to discuss on several aspects with poets, litterateurs like Pouishwar Nath Renn, Nagarjun, Acharya Devendranath Sharma, Nishant Ketu and Smt. Sukhada Pandey and others. Bireswor now resides in Kolkata capital city of West Bengal. He left Patna in the year 2004 but does visit the city every year till date. He keeps getting invitations to attend programs. He spent long 54 years of his life in Patna, Bihar and many memories still remain with him from the beginning of his school days. __NOINDEX__