Amarnath Sehgal

Subject: History

Section: Art and Culture

Context: 100 years of Amarnath Sehgal: The artist who captured the agony of Partition in bronze

Amar Nath Sehgal (5 February 1922 – 28 December 2007) was a noted Indian modernist sculptor, painter, poet and art educator.
Became an art educator, teaching at College of Art, Delhi and in time a noted modern sculptor to his generation.
Later, he also became a pioneer of intellectual property rights especially moral rights in copyright for artists in India, after he fought a 13 year long legal case with Government of India.
- A bronze mural which he created for the Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi in the 1960s, was removed without his consent, during renovations in 1979. He filed the case at Delhi High Court in 1992, and the courts finally awarded him damages in 2005.
1993, he was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s National Academy of Art, the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India.
In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, by Government of India.