DU Correspondent :
People from all walks of life on Sunday paid their last respect to the Ekushey Padak winner sculptor Syed Abdullah Khalid after his body was taken to his eternal creation Aparajeya Bangla on the Dhaka University campus
He was 75. Khalid, who was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, breathed his last at the BIRDEM Hospital in the city on Saturday night. The noted sculptor left behind his wife, two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, Sammilita Sanskritik Jote’s President Golam Kuddus, Bangla Academy Director General Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan, Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Pro-VC Akhtaruzzaman, DU Teachers’ Association President Professor Maksud Kamal, among others, paid their last homage to the renowned sculptor.
Terming the sculptor’s death as an irreparable loss, the Cultural Minister said, a bright star in the sculptor arena has fallen. His creation will inspire new generations for the years to come.
The DU VC said that Khalid had imagination and creativity and people would find a profusion of these qualities in all of his works. Earlier in the morning, the sculptor’s body was taken to his alma mater fine arts institute premises of Dhaka University for the final farewell of the students, faculty and alumni.
Artist Rafiqunnabi said, ‘The Ekushey Padak prompted his desire to work more and he was always speaking about new projects he wanted to work on.’
His namaz-e-janaza was held at the DU central mosque after Zuhr prayers. Later, he laid to rest at the Intellectual Martyred Graveyard at Mirpur in the capital.
Abdullah Khalid is noted for his famous sculpture Aparajeya Bangla, the monument on the country’s war of independence, on the Dhaka University campus.
His other works include the Terracotta relief on socio-cultural heritage at the Bangladesh Bank head office and a 447-sft mural Abahaman Bangla at the Bangladesh Television Centre. Born in Sylhet in 1942, Khalid completed his BFA in painting in 1969 from East Pakistan College of Arts and Crafts (presently faculty of fine arts, University of Dhaka) and did his MFA in painting and sculpture from the Chittagong University.
Khalid was a professor at the sculpture department of the institute of fine arts at Dhaka University until his death.
People from all walks of life on Sunday paid their last respect to the Ekushey Padak winner sculptor Syed Abdullah Khalid after his body was taken to his eternal creation Aparajeya Bangla on the Dhaka University campus
He was 75. Khalid, who was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, breathed his last at the BIRDEM Hospital in the city on Saturday night. The noted sculptor left behind his wife, two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, Sammilita Sanskritik Jote’s President Golam Kuddus, Bangla Academy Director General Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan, Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Pro-VC Akhtaruzzaman, DU Teachers’ Association President Professor Maksud Kamal, among others, paid their last homage to the renowned sculptor.
Terming the sculptor’s death as an irreparable loss, the Cultural Minister said, a bright star in the sculptor arena has fallen. His creation will inspire new generations for the years to come.
The DU VC said that Khalid had imagination and creativity and people would find a profusion of these qualities in all of his works. Earlier in the morning, the sculptor’s body was taken to his alma mater fine arts institute premises of Dhaka University for the final farewell of the students, faculty and alumni.
Artist Rafiqunnabi said, ‘The Ekushey Padak prompted his desire to work more and he was always speaking about new projects he wanted to work on.’
His namaz-e-janaza was held at the DU central mosque after Zuhr prayers. Later, he laid to rest at the Intellectual Martyred Graveyard at Mirpur in the capital.
Abdullah Khalid is noted for his famous sculpture Aparajeya Bangla, the monument on the country’s war of independence, on the Dhaka University campus.
His other works include the Terracotta relief on socio-cultural heritage at the Bangladesh Bank head office and a 447-sft mural Abahaman Bangla at the Bangladesh Television Centre. Born in Sylhet in 1942, Khalid completed his BFA in painting in 1969 from East Pakistan College of Arts and Crafts (presently faculty of fine arts, University of Dhaka) and did his MFA in painting and sculpture from the Chittagong University.
Khalid was a professor at the sculpture department of the institute of fine arts at Dhaka University until his death.
