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Chand, Suruchi  

Indian, 20th century, female.

Born 1944, in India.

Painter. Figure compositions.

Suruchi Chand aims at interpreting episodes from Hindu mythology in a contemporary context. Gods and mythical figures rub shoulders with humans in compositions inspired by traditional miniatures. Chand is particularly interested in the status of women, their place within feminine mythology and their representations in Indian art. She has participated in a number of exhibitions including: Nouvelle Biennale de Paris (...

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Sen, Amulya G.  

Hindu School, 20th century, male.

Born in India.

Painter.

Sen was a painter in the classical Hindu tradition. In 1946, work by him was shown at the international exhibition organized by UNESCO at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.

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Zimmer, Heinrich R(obert)  

Mary F. Linda

(b Greifswald, Dec 6, 1890; d New York, March 20, 1943).

German art historian. He was trained in Sanskrit philology and comparative linguistics at the University of Berlin, graduating in 1913, and his interests embraced Hindu mythology and philosophy in both literary and visual forms. He taught at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald (1920–24), and he held the Chair of Indian philology at Heidelberg (1924–38), from which he was dismissed in 1938 for his anti-Nazi convictions. In 1942, after briefly teaching at Balliol College (1939–40), Oxford, Zimmer became Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Columbia University (1942–3) in New York, where he died a year later. Many of his most important writings were edited and published posthumously by Joseph Campbell.

Following the Romantic and transcendental traditions of Indian scholarship, Zimmer sought to interpret the contributions of India in philosophy, medicine, art and the history of religion to the development of human civilization, and to assimilate the ‘truths’ found therein with Western thought. His observations were based on Puranic and Tantric texts, sources which until that time were underutilized in Indic studies. His ...