Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya
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Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya
(1905 – 2003) was an India
n painter.
He was born in 1905 at Baler Sawai Madhopur
district in Rajasthan
state in India. He was Principal of Rajasthan Kala Mandir and Rajasthan School of Art from 1945 to 1966. He was awarded the Padma Shri
in 1984.
His first exhibition was held in 1928 at Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Calcutta and thereafter many in other major cities of India.
Awards : Maharaja Patiala, 1934; Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, 1958; Padmasri, 1984. Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1988. In 1998 he received the honour of ’Sahitya Vachaspati’ from Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag.
He was also a poet and a writer.
Vijayvargiya
Vijayvargia/Vijayvargiya/Vijayvergiya' ' is a merchant community mainly from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.According to tradition, it originated from the historical Khandela town in northern Rajasthan...
(1905 – 2003) was an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n painter.
He was born in 1905 at Baler Sawai Madhopur
Sawai Madhopur
Sawai Madhopur is a city and a municipality in Sawai Madhopur District in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the administrative headquarters of Sawai Madhopur District....
district in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
state in India. He was Principal of Rajasthan Kala Mandir and Rajasthan School of Art from 1945 to 1966. He was awarded the Padma Shri
Padma Shri
Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
in 1984.
His first exhibition was held in 1928 at Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Calcutta and thereafter many in other major cities of India.
Awards : Maharaja Patiala, 1934; Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, 1958; Padmasri, 1984. Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1988. In 1998 he received the honour of ’Sahitya Vachaspati’ from Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag.
He was also a poet and a writer.