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Dashrath Patel (1927 – 1 December 2010) was an Indian designer, sculptor, and was one of the first teachers at the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Dashrath 20th-century Indian designers 1927 births 2010 deaths Artists from Ahmedabad Gujarati people Indian male sculptors Indian ceramists Indian graphic designers Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts École des Beaux-Arts alumni Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai alumni 20th-century Indian sculptors 20th-century Indian male artists Academic staff of National Institute of Design Designers at National Institute of Design Experiments in Art and Technology collaborating artists
Dashrath Patel (1927 – 1 December 2010) was an Indian designer, sculptor, and was one of the first teachers at the National Institute of Design
The National Institutes of Design (NID) are a group of autonomous public design institutes in India, with the first institute established in 1961 in Ahmedabad. The other NIDs are located in the cities of Kurukshetra, Amaravati, Jorhat and Bho ...
(NID), Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...
, from 1961 to 1981.
He was awarded the Padma Shri
The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...
by Government of India
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in 1981, followed by the Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan (IAST: ''Padma Bhūṣaṇa'', lit. 'Lotus Decoration') is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 Januar ...
, posthumously in 2011.
Early life and education
Born in 1927 in Sojitra, Gujarat, Patel studied fine arts atGovernment College of Fine Arts, Chennai
The Government College of Fine Arts (initially known as the Madras School of Art) in Chennai is the oldest art institution in India. The institution was established in 1850 by surgeon Alexander Hunter as a private art school. In 1852, after be ...
(1949–53), where Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury was his mentor; thereafter studied painting, sculpture and ceramics during his Post Graduate studies at École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
, Paris (1953–1955).
Career
He practiced in diverse art fields as a painter, ceramist, a graphic designer, industrial design and exhibition design. Early in his career he was contemporary of Tyeb Mehta, M.F. Hussain and V. S. Gaitonde who were together in the 1950s in Bhulabhai Desai Institute, Mumbai, and often exhibited alongside them. LaterHenri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and Humanist photography, humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 135 film, 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street ...
introduced him to photography, after former visited his exhibition at the Galerie Barbizon, Paris. He worked at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad as a designer and as faculty in Industrial Design, he also established the ceramics department at the institute. He left NID in 1981, and went on to establish the Rural Design School in Sewapuri, near Varanasi
Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.*
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He has collaborated creatives like Charles Eames
Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architect ...
, Louis I. Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. Whil ...
, Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto (; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for t ...
, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, dancer Chandralekha.
He died in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...
after a brief illness, at the age of 83 on 1 December 2010.
During the last decade of his life, he worked largely from Alibag, near Mumbai, where the Dashrath Patel Museum now houses his multidisciplinary oeuvre.
See also
* Chandralekha (dancer) * National Institute of Design, AhmedabadReferences
External links
"Dashrath Patel Profile,Interview and Artworks"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Dashrath 20th-century Indian designers 1927 births 2010 deaths Artists from Ahmedabad Gujarati people Indian male sculptors Indian ceramists Indian graphic designers Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts École des Beaux-Arts alumni Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai alumni 20th-century Indian sculptors 20th-century Indian male artists Academic staff of National Institute of Design Designers at National Institute of Design Experiments in Art and Technology collaborating artists