Nirode Mazumdar

Nirode Mazumdar (1916 – 1982) was an Indian painter that belonged to the first generation of Indian modernists and emerged as the founder and key member of the Calcutta group. He was awarded the Norman Blount Memorial Award for his distinguishing artistic skills, and a French Government scholarship that let him study in an engraving academy in Paris. He worked and held solo and group shows in Europe for ten years, and returned in Calcutta in 1967.