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Jahar Dasgupta (Jahar Lal Dasgupta) was born on 31 May, 1942 in Jamshedpur, British India, is an Indian contemporary painter. Discover Jahar Dasgupta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
| Popular As |
Jahar Lal Dasgupta |
| Occupation |
Painter, sculptor, social activist, teacher |
| Age |
81 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
31 May, 1942 |
| Birthday |
31 May |
| Birthplace |
Jamshedpur, British India |
| Nationality |
India
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Jahar Dasgupta Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Jahar Dasgupta Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jahar Dasgupta worth at the age of 81 years old? Jahar Dasgupta’s income source is mostly from being a successful Painter. He is from India. We have estimated Jahar Dasgupta's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
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| Cars |
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| Source of Income |
Painter |
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Timeline
Jahar Dasgupta, (born 31 May 1942) is a contemporary painter from India.
He was born in Jamshedpur, India.
Jahar Dasgupta's childhood spent in Jamshedpur where at the small age he used to draw elephants, dogs, trees on the floor.
Later their family moved to Dhanbad due to his father Mr. Narendranath Dasgupta who worked in TISCO in an executive post left the job and joined Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research institute as a scientist.
At the age of 9 he draw Stalin face and Ma Sarada Devi on the wall.
This took the attention of his parents and they decided to send him in some art school.
In 1960 he was admitted to Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, the place of Rabindranath Tagore.
That was a turning point in his life.
End of 1960s and beginning of 1970s was a period of political turmoil.
The left movement in the fold of CPI(ML) rose to its peak ushering in deaths and murders in a devastating measure.
In 1964, he obtained diploma from Kala Bhavana.
His first job was an art teacher in a non Bengali school in North Calcutta where he served for many years.
In his struggling time, he also took many art tuitions to run his family.
Simultaneously he continued to participate art shows regularly.
Dasgupta had developed his individual style in paintings and drawings.
Previously he has painted in oil medium and now he mainly works in ink, pastel and acrylic colour.
His first solo exhibition organised in Birla Academy.
His others solo exhibitions took place in Laxmana Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Academy, Chitrakoot, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta.
In 1969, a few kind souls, total seven ex-students of Santiniketan like Jahar and Baroda Art College students came together to form a group named Painters' Orchestra, now one of the oldest artist groups in India.
Since that time Jahar Dasgupta is regular participant in the group shows of this organisation and also went for few solos as well.
His first solo exhibition was organised in Birla Art and Culture Kolkata, West Bengal.
He developed his own style of expression since the beginning of 1970-s after passing through a period of apprenticeship during 1960-s.
In this sense he may be categorised as an artist of 1970-s.
The Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 also created great commotion.
All creative persons were somehow or other affected by these incidents.
All these social upheavals had great impact on his creative self.
In early phase his paintings often revealed reality in its crudest form.
An acrylic canvas of 1994 titled 'Scrap' shows clusters of dilapidated human bodies tied together are being pulled up from a crate by a crane.
Jahar never tried being repetitive with one fixed subject.
He explored with various subjects and style in different forms in respective times.
In one side 'End of an Era', 'Genocide', 'Waiting for Godo', 'Dark side of Civilization', Series of 'Confrontation', 'Shelter' are the reflection of anger and crude rebellion.
On the other side through 'Mermaid' series, 'Fall of Radhika' series, 'Eternal Love' series, he touch the chord of beauty ingrained in life.
His paintings at that time swing between the two aspects of this duality, ideal and the real, good and evil, light and darkness.
He exhibited his first solo in abroad in 2004 at Gallery Hansmania (Norway) and later at Club Bangladesh (Sweden).
Dasgupta also participated many group exhibitions throughout in India and abroad.
Group shows like Aakriti Art Gallery, Birla Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, Jehangir Art Gallery, AIFACS, Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Nehru Centre, Lokayata Art Gallery, Chemould Art Gallery, Mulk Raj Anand Centre and many other places.
His paintings exhibited in South Korea, London, Paris and Canada.
He was invited at NABC in 2010 hosted by Kallol a non-profit socio-cultural organization of Bengalis, New Jersey.
After that his last solo exhibition was organised by Tagore Society at 60,000 square metres (6.0 ha) performing arts center located in Marina Bay popularly known Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Singapore in the year 2011.
