Amitava Das Born in Delhi in 1947, Amitava Das graduated from College of Art, New Delhi, in 1972. At the time, he was part of the New Group and Artists’ Forum.
In the Seventies, Amitava won the Lalit Kala Akademi’s national award. In 1989, he won a fellowship to study exhibition and graphic design in Germany.
In his youth, Amitava was strongly influenced by the existential philosophy of Sartre and Camus as well as the poetry of Jibananda Das and Shakti Chattopadhyay. The existential dilemma of a man thrown into a world as a stranger is characteristic of his work. In his paintings, Amitava introduces a single figure within a dense, turgidly rendered space.