Satish Gujral
| Satish Gujral | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Satish Gujral 25 December 1925 Jhelum, Punjab, British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Mumbai |
| Known for | Painting, Sculpting, Mural, Architect & Writing |
| Spouse(s) | Kiran |
| Awards | Padma Vibhushan 1999 |
Satish Gujral (born 25 December 1925) is an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist, graphic designer, writer and architect of the post-independent era. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1999. His elder brother, Inder Kumar Gujral, was the former Prime Minister of India.
Satish Gujral was born in Jhelum in undivided Punjab in British India. At the age of 8, a sickness resulted in impairment of hearing. Once Satish was went to hiking to kashmir with his father and brother inder kumar gujral.There he been meet with an accident . They were crossing a rickety bridge over some rapids.
In 1939, he joined Mayo School of Arts in Lahore, to study applied arts. He moved to Bombay in 1944 and enrolled in Sir JJ School of Art. In 1947, due to a recurring sickness he was forced to drop out of school and leave Bombay.
In 1952, he got a scholarship to study at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where he was apprenticed to the renowned artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. There he had an opportunity to get an apprenticeship with renowned artists Diego Rivera and David Sequeiros.
The Partition of India and the associated agony of the immigrants impacted a young Satish which manifested itself in the art works he created later. From 1952 to 1974, Gujral organised shows of his sculptures, paintings and graphics in many cities across the world such as New York City, New Delhi, Montreal, Berlin and Tokyo, among others.
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