Chintamoni Kar

Chintamoni Kar (19 April 1915 – 3 October 2005) was a British-Indian sculptor. Described from The Telegraph as renowned , he received civilian awards from the Indian and French governments and won an Olympic silver medal on behalf of Great Britain.

Personal life and studies Born on 19 April 1915 in Kharagpur, West Bengal, Kar trained at the Indian Society of Oriental Art run by Abanindranath Tagore. He was taught to sculpt by Giridhari Mahapatra and Victor Giovanelli.

Kar moved to Paris in 1938 where he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before moving back to India.

Chintamoni Kar was married to Amina Ahmed Kar, who was herself an artist, and her works were largely non-figurative and abstract. The couple had one child. Both members of his family died before Chintamoni, who died on 3 October 2005 in a private hospital at the age of 90.

At the 1948 Summer Olympics Kar, entered as a competitor for Great Britain, won the silver medal for his work entitled The Stag.