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Artist Statement:
I was born in the Indus
valley, and after the
partition of India in 1947, I
migrated to Delhi. Sickness
and hunger were dominating
experiences. After a long
struggle, hard work and
self-education, I ultimately
started to paint, attending
the Delhi School of Art (Delhi
Polytechnic). My earliest
works depicted all these
experiences of suffering. But
very soon I became free and
open to other cultures.
Through exposure to the
Bauhaus exhibition and the Max
Mueller Bhavan
(Goethe-Institut) Library, I
became interested in German
art and culture (particularly
such artists as Kandinsky and
Klee).
Then after a period of
intensive study, I received a
DAAD (German Academic Exchange
Service) scholarship in 1966
to study art at the Munich
Academy of Visual Arts. Here
I learned not only many
painting and graphic
techniques, but also found
myself in the midst of various
currents of creative
expression. Kandinsky´s book
The Spiritual in Art and
Constructivism of the 60s
influenced me, as I drew
closer to my working
conception. Ultimately, a
geometrical construction of
four circles and a square
appeared before my inner eye –
the circle symbolising the
spiritual world and the
square, the material. Since
then, this form has ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
ONE-MAN-EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1964 New Delhi AIFACS Gallery
1967 M�nchen, Galerie
Stenzel
1967 Augsburg, Ecke Galerie
1967 Mainz, Galerie Winfried
Gurlitt
1967 Z�rich, Galerie La
Fourmi�re
1970 Berlin, modern art
galerie
1970 Grenchen, Galerie Toni
Brechb�hl
1971 Heilbronn, Galerie Rota
1972 M�nchen, Kunstverein
1972 ...
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Mahirwan Mamtani Biography:
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born Indus Valley 1935. After the partition of India in 1947, migrated to Delhi. Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1955. Studied Painting at the Delhi School of Art, New Delhi and received the National Diploma in 1962. Awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study painting at the Academy of Art, Munich under Prof. Franz Nagel in 1966, since then lives in Munich. Exhibited throughout world in National and International exhibitions. Among other awards: National Award Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi and the International award at the 10th Biennale of Prints in Tokyo.
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