Leela Mansukhani Mukherjee

สถานที่: Hyderabad

เกิด: 1916

ความตาย: 2002

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Leela Mukherjee, also known as Leela Mansukhani Mukherjee, was an Indian artist born in Hyderabad, Sindh, India in 1916. She completed her schooling at the Theosophical Girls School in Benares and graduated with a science degree from Bombay University. She then studied art at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, where her teachers included Ramkinkar Baij and Nandalal Bose. In 1944, she married a fellow student, Benode Behari Mukherjee. Mukherjee worked with her husband and the artist Kripal Singh on a mural at Hindi Bhavan, Santiniketan, in 1947. In 1948, she visited Nepal and learned wood carving. She worked with wooden sculptures and later started casting in bronze. From 1954 to 1974, she worked at Welham Girls' School as head of the art department and also at Welham Boys' School. From 1975, she was part of the Lalit Kala Akademi, where she developed her work through printmaking. She exhibited her work in several exhibitions including a one-woman show of wood-carvings in Delhi in 1958. She had an influence on the work of her daughter, Mrinalini Mukherjee. Leela Mukherjee died in 2002.