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Asit Kumar Haldar was an Indian painter of Bengal school and an assistant of Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan.!

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Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian to be appointed as the principal of a Government Art School, Kala Bhavan, followed by the Government.

Asit Kumar Haldar was an Indian painter of Bengal school and an assistant of Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan.

Asit Kumar Haldar is celebrated for his artistic versatility, with contributions spanning across painting, sculpture, illustration, as well as literature and.

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A noted painter and sculptor of the Bengal School, Asit Kumar Haldar is known for incorporating Hindu and Buddhist Revivalist imagery as well as Indian art historical narratives in his work. Haldar worked across mediums, primarily oil painting, watercolour and tempera, before developing a unique process for lacquered painting on wood.

Born in the Tagore household at Jorasanko, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Haldar was Rabindranath Tagore’s grandnephew and was introduced early to literature and mythology.

In 1904, he began training as one of Abanindranath Tagore’s earliest pupils at the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, where he studied alongside Nandalal Bose, Sunayani Devi and Mukul Dey.

From 1909 to 1911, Haldar, along with Nandalal Bose and Samarendranath Gupta, copied the cave paintings at Ajanta upon invitation from British copyist and mural technique expert Christiana J Herringham and commissioned by the India Society of London.

In 1921, Haldar accompanied Herringham t