Surendranath Kar

Surendranath Kar (5 March 1892– 2 August 1970) was an Indian artist and architect, known for amalgamating the Indian architectural style with western and eastern styles of architecture. Born in 1892 in Haveli Kharagpur under Munger District of Bihar in British India, Kar did his primary learning of art under his cousin, renowned Bengali painter, Nandalal Bose, and later under Abanindranath Tagore, It was Bose who in 1911 took the 19 year old Kar to Abanindranath who not only advised the teenager to take up painting but taught him elementary drawing under his own guidance. as a teacher of art as also helping organise the club's activities. he joined the institution as per Tagore's wish

Untitled (Santhal Couple), Chromolithograph on paper, c. 1940s, 13.2 x 8.5 in., DAG Museums

Surendranath Kar died in 1970 at the age of 78.