e-News® | The NEWS Company.. : Celebrated painter Qayyum Chowdhury has died after falling sick at the Bengal Classical Music Festival. Eminent artist Qayyum Chowdhury has died at Combined Military Hospital in the capital on Sunday night. He was 80.
After the pioneering artists like Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed his name is the most popular among the first generation artists of Bangladesh. Qayyum Chowdhury was born on March 9, 1934 in an educated and aristocratic family of Feni, Noakhali.
Whithin a few years after passing from the Art Institute, he received the national award for his contribution to art (1961–62). In the same year, he received the first prize in the All Pakistan Art Exhibition held in Lahore for his painting titled Bottom. Four years later, he received the award of the Royal Court inn Teheran Biennale (1966).
Shilpakala Academy Award (1977), Ekushey Award (1986),6th Bangabandhu Award (1994), Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Book Illustration (1983), Gold medal for contribution in book design, National Book Center, Dhaka (1975).