Born in Budapest ,on 30 January , 1913 to Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, and Marie Antoniette Gottesmann, a Jewish opera singer from Hungary .Shergill was the elder of the two daughters. At sixteen years old Amrita Singh Shergill sailed to France with her mother to...
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Sobha Singh
Sobha Singh was born on 29 November 1901,in Sri Hargobindpur (Gurdaspur) in a Sikh Ramgarhia family.He mastered and self practiced to paint.At the age of 15,Sobha Singh studied in industrial school, Amritsar,for a year in fine arts and craft.Later on he joined the British Army as a draughtsman and was posted in Iraq .He studied...
Manjit Bawa
Born in 1941 , in a small town by the name of Dhuri ,Punjab, Manjit Bawa was brought up in a spiritual environment offering stories of Mahabharata , Ramayana , Purana as well as hymns , poems and rhymes from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji . Manjit Bawa studied fine arts at the College of...
