# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zainul-abedin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:54:47.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zainul-abedin"
name: "Zainul Abedin"
slug: "zainul-abedin"
description: "Zainul Abedin, also known as Shilpacharya was a Bangladeshi painter. He became well known in 1944 through his series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal during its British colonial period. After the Partition of Indian subcontinent he moved to East Pakistan. In 1948, he helped to establish the Institute of Arts and Crafts at the University of Dhaka. The Indian Express has described him as a legendary Bangladeshi painter and activist. Like many of his contemporaries, his paintings on the Bengal famine of 1943 are viewed as his most characteristic works. His homeland honored him with the title \"Shilpacharya\" \"Great teacher of the arts\" for his artistic and visionary attributes. He was the pioneer of the modern art movement that took place in Bangladesh and was rightly considered by Syed Manzoorul Islam as the founding father of Bangladeshi modern arts, soon after Bangladesh became an independent republic."
tagline: "Bengali painter (1914–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zainul_Abedin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1914-12-29"
deathDate: "1976-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.821917808219178
  historical:           16.90738266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump