Introduction
- Date of Birth
- 07 Feb 1904
- Zodiac sign
- Aquarius
- Date of Death
- 19 Nov 1980
- Age
- 76
- Place of Birth
- , West Bengal, India
- Spouse(s)
- Leela mukherjee
- Children
- Daughter mrinalini mukherjee
- State Country of Birth
- West Bengal, India
1917
- Enrolled as a student in the school at Santiniketan, India
1919
- Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (Student of Nandalal Bose)
1919 – 1924
1936
- Visited Japan where the Tosa School, calligraphy, and Japanese screen traditions shape his use of line, space, and materials
1947
- Visited Najibabad (India) during the summer and undertook a journey into Nepal, which inspired a vast number of sketches and watercolors
1920
- Does his first mural on the walls of his hostel room
1923
- Assists Nandalal in the painting of his murals in the old library building, inspired by scrolls in the Bagh and Ajanta cave paintings
1924
- Prints murals in 16 niches of the Satoshalaya building, Visva Bharati, depicting Santhal life
1925
- Teacher, Librarian and Curator, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
1925 – 1949
1929
- Becomes a full-fledged teacher at Kala Bhavan Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
1937
- Assists Nandalal at Haripura Congress where he designed and constructed the entire township with local materials and decorated it with the Haripura posters
1940
- Paints a mural in the ceiling of the hostel of Kala Bhavan dormitory, which is considered to be the first of his significant murals
1946
- Begins to paint the Hindi Bhavan mural at Visva Bharati
1946 – 1947
1948
- Leaves Santiniketan to assume the position of curator at the Nepal Government Museum in Kathmandu, Nepal
1950
- Paints murals at Banasthali in Rajasthan, India
1952
- Starts Art Training and a School for Children in Mussoorie, India
- Establishes Art and Craft Centre in Mussoorie, India
1954
- Gets appointed as Educational Advisor to Art School, Patna, India
1958
- Gets appointed as U.G.C. Professor, Art Theory Faculty, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, India
1958 – 1970
1967
- Assumes position of Principal of Kala Bhavan, Kolkata, India
1968
- Gets appointed as Professor at Kala Bhavan
1970
- Gets appointed as a Professor Emeritus at Visva Bharati Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
- Gets elected as fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi India
Exhibitions
1934
- Benode Behari exhibits in the Kala Bhavan group show at the Congress House, Chennai, India
26 Oct 1934 to 31 Oct 1934
1936
- Exhibited at the Horeganji temple, Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan
- Participated at Exhibition organised by the Nippon Cultural Federation, Nippon Bunka Renmei
26 Apr 1936 to 28 Apr 1936
1938
- Exhibits at a group show of Kala Bhavan organised by the Santiniketan Ashramik Sangha
1939
- Exhibits at the Kala Bhavan group show at the Bangiya Parishad in February
1944
- Exhibits with Ramkinkar at the YMCA, New Delhi, India
18 Oct 1944 to 21 Oct 1944
1945
- First exhibition of the Kolkata Group in Kolkata, India
1946
- Exhibition of works of Benode Behari of landscapes and flower studies, organised by the Ashramik Sangha, Kolkata, India
1948
- Exhibits 69 works at Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie, India
22 Jun 1948 to 25 Jun 1948
1949
- Retrospective, Varanasi, India
1950
- Works produced in Nepal are exhibited in Patna in November along with those of Leela Mukherjee and Riten Mazumdar at the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan Bhavan, Patna, India
1951
- Exhibition of works with Leela, Jitendra Kumar and Riten Mazumdar at Freemason's Hall, Delhi organised by Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi, India
13 Oct 1951 to 19 Oct 1951
1953
- Exhibition of works at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
14 Dec 1953 to 20 Dec 1953
1959
- Retrospective exhibition at the Indian Museum, Kolkata, India
10 Feb 1959 to 18 Feb 1959
1960
- Exhibition of his works at Kala Bhavan, Kolkata, India
29 Aug 1960 to 04 Sep 1960
1963
- Retrospective, New Delhi, India
1964
- Retrospective, Varanasi, India
1969
- Retrospective, New Delhi, India
1979
- Exhibition of his works at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata opened on 09 May, Kolkata, India
- Post-blindness work shown at Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
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- Tuli Research Centre for India Studies presents All Living Souls - Expressed in the Modern and Contemporary Fine & Popular Indian Arts Curated by Neville Tuli As part of launching the 16th Research Category for India Studies - "The Animal-Human-Nature-Continuum" we present a fascinating exhibition of modern and contemporary Indian fine and popular arts and their expression of the ideas and forms related to the dialogue between animals and humans, and the larger cosmic and spiritual thoughts which abide therein. Please visit the Exhibition and see the artworks by modern and contemporary masters such as Rabindranath Tagore, D.P. Roy Chowdhury, M.F. Husain, J. Swaminathan, J. Sultan Ali, Somnath Hore, Ganesh Pyne, Manjit Bawa, K. Laxma Goud, Krishna Reddy, Jyoti Bhatt, Rekha Rodwittiya, Amit Ambalal, among others, along with vintage and rare prints from the pioneering Indian chromolithographic presses such as Chitrashala, Ravi Varma, Calcutta Art Studio, Chore Bagan & Kansaripara.
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