Allah Bakhsh
Personal
Other names:
Job / Known for: Painter and calligrapher
Left traces: paintings of Punjabi folklore and Hindu mythology
Born
Date: 1895
Location: PK Wazirabad, Punjab
Died
Date: 1978-10-18 (aged 83)
Resting place: PK Muslim Town Graveyard, Muslim Town, Lahore, Punjab
Death Cause: Natural causes
Family
Spouse:
Children:
Parent(s):
QR Code:
Allah Bakhsh My QR code: Allah Bakhsh https://DearGone.com/13194
Key Ownner: Not yet supported by key owner
Show More
Rank Users ranking to :
Thanks, you rate star
1 2 3 4 5
Ranking 5.0 1
Fullname NoEnglish

Slogan
Painting is hard but not impossible.
About me / Bio:
Allah Bakhsh was a Pakistani painter and calligrapher who was actively involved in aesthetics and classical landscape paintings throughout his life. He produced his work in British India before partition and in Pakistan after split of Indian subcontinent. Most of his work revolves around traditional tales of Persian and Hindu mythology. He also depicted rural life, particularly the culture of Punjab, Pakistan in his paintings. He received the national literary award, the Pride of Performance in 1963. He is primarily recognized for depicting tragic love stories of Sohni Mahiwal, Heer Ranjha and Tilism-e-Hoshruba, an epic story of Amir Hamza, a legendary Persian adventurer. Sometimes, he used to depict the traditional festivals of Punjab. Some of his work he produced after independence was acquired by the National Art Gallery. He was born around 1895 in Wazirabad, British Punjab (in present-day Punjab, Pakistan) into a Punjabi Muslim family. He spent most of his life in Lahore. At first, he attended a Madrasa to study Urdu and Arabic, however, he subsequently left school. His father was a house painter who used to work at Mughalpura Railway Workshop. At the apparent age of five, he joined Master Abdullah who trained him in artwork. He was first asked to practice three English alphabets (ABC) on slate. It is believed he practiced letter "A" for the first three years, and later B and C letters to produce "ABC of art". He started his first artwork between 1913 and 1914 at Bhati Gate with nonrepresentational patterns. Initially, he copied Western painting to create visual characters, but later adopted original artwork with mythical subject. In 1914, he went to Bombay (now Mumbai) for a better career where he stayed for five years and worked at Roop Naraine Photographic Studio as a background artist. His initial efforts didn't help him to earn recognition. He later created paintings of Krishna, a major deity in Hinduism which helped him to be recognized as an artist. After practicing Punjabi folklore and Hindu mythology, he became known as a "romantic painter". The newspapers of that time referred to him as the "master painter". He moved back to Lahore in 1919 and worked as a commercial artist at Paisa Akhbar in Urdu Bazaar (Lahore) until 1922. Later in 1924, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir offered him a job as a court-painter, but he declined the offer. He worked at the court of Bhupinder Singh of Patiala from 1937 to 1938. He died on October 18, 1978 in Lahore and was buried at Muslim Town Graveyard.
Show More

Article for Allah Bakhsh

Died profile like Allah Bakhsh

  • Riaz Khokhar Voice of death
    Riaz Khokhar
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Afra Bukhari Voice of death
    Afra Bukhari
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum Voice of death
    Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Syed Ali Nawab Voice of death
    Syed Ali Nawab
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Salma Mumtaz Voice of death
    Salma Mumtaz
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Qalandar Momand Voice of death
    Qalandar Momand
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Rizwan Wasti Voice of death
    Rizwan Wasti
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Faisal Masud Voice of death
    Faisal Masud
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Khair un Nissa Jaffery Voice of death
    Khair un Nissa Jaffery
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi Voice of death
    Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Rahimullah Yusufzai Voice of death
    Rahimullah Yusufzai
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: PK
  • Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Voice of death
    Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
    Age: y/o ()
    Died: CH
Comments:
Add Death Died Social Media

To access this section, register or log in to your account.

Log in / Sign up