Artist Information:
Mahirwan Mamtani
Munich,
Germany
Member Since: Apr 2007
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Artist Statement:
I was born in the Indus
valley, and after the
partition of India in 1947, I
migrated to Delhi. Sickness
and hunger were dominating
experiences. After a long
struggle, hard work and
self-education, I ultimately
started to paint, attending
the Delhi School of Art (Delhi
Polytechnic). My earliest
works depicted all these
experiences of suffering. But
very soon I became free and
open to other cultures.
Through exposure to the
Bauhaus exhibition and the Max
Mueller Bhavan
(Goethe-Institut) Library, I
became interested in German
art and culture (particularly
such artists as Kandinsky and
Klee).
Then after a period of
intensive study, I received a
DAAD (German Academic Exchange
Service) scholarship in 1966
to study art at the Munich
Academy of Visual Arts. Here
I learned not only many
painting and graphic
techniques, but also found
myself in the midst of various
currents of creative
expression. Kandinsky´s book
The Spiritual in Art and
Constructivism of the 60s
influenced me, as I drew
closer to my working
conception. Ultimately, a
geometrical construction of
four circles and a square
appeared before my inner eye –
the circle symbolising the
spiritual world and the
square, the material. Since
then, this form has ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
ONE-MAN-EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1964 New Delhi AIFACS Gallery
1967 M�nchen, Galerie
Stenzel
1967 Augsburg, Ecke Galerie
1967 Mainz, Galerie Winfried
Gurlitt
1967 Z�rich, Galerie La
Fourmi�re
1970 Berlin, modern art
galerie
1970 Grenchen, Galerie Toni
Brechb�hl
1971 Heilbronn, Galerie Rota
1972 M�nchen, Kunstverein
1972 ...
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Mahirwan Mamtani's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Mahirwan Mamtani's Portfolio. Browse Mamtani's body of work: I was born in the Indus valley, and after the partition of India in 1947, I migrated to Delhi. Sickness and hunger were dominating experiences. After a long struggle, hard work and self-education, I ultimately started to paint, attending the Delhi School of Art (Delhi Polytechnic). My earliest works depicted all these experiences of suffering. But very soon I became free and open to other cultures. Through exposure to the Bauhaus exhibition and the Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe-Institut) Library, I became interested in German art and culture (particularly such artists as Kandinsky and Klee).
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