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Buddha

The painting depicts Buddha's image. It is one of the series of paintings by Elizabeth Brunner, created between 1955 to 1957, while on the pilgrimage tour. She visited and painted many holy shrines of Buddhism in India, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka and Thailand. The work is created in the medium of oil on palm leaf mat.
buddhist painting elizabeth brunner
Identifier
ngma-16468
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.
Pages
92 x 168 cm
Published in
Hungary
Type
Painting