The work is one of the series of paintings based on Buddhist theme, by the artist Elizabeth Brunner, created between the years 1955 to 1957, while she travelled on the pilgrimage tour. She visited and painted the holy shrines of Buddhism and Buddha images in India, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka and Thailand. The painting is done in the medium of oil on a palm leaf mat and brilliantly gives the essence of the Pindaya cave which is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhist in Burma and an attractively unusual visual sight for tourists with thousands of Buddha images in various styles.
- Identifier
- ngma-16463
- Material
- Oil Paint, Palm Leaf Mat
- Note
- Elizabeth Brunner was a Hungarian artist born in 1910. Her mother Elizabeth Sass Brunner too was an artist who had exhibited in the National Salon from 1914. Both the mother and daughter artist- duo lived and travelled in India extensively and went on many pilgrimage tours in and around the country with an artistic interest. Brunner along with her mother Elizabeth Sass came to India in the year 1930 in search of new path in life and became respected figures in Indian artistic life with their subjects of work concentric on the life and spirit of India. In India they were received by Ravindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan and by several Maharajas and other prominent Indian spokesmen in other parts of country. In the time they spend in India they also painted many paintings with Buddhist themes. Apart from this, throughout their travel together; they painted landscapes, mountains, forests, monuments and people along with major Indian personalities.
- Published in
- Hungary
- Type
- Painting
