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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bangladeshi artist (1939 – 2015)}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Novera Ahmed<br />
| native_name = নভেরা আহমেদ<br />
| image = Novera Ahmed (1939–2015).jpg<br />
| caption = Ahmed<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|03|29|df=76y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sundarbans]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|05|06|1939|03|29|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Paris]], France<br />
| nationality = Bangladeshi<br />
| alma_mater = [[Camberwell College of Arts]]<br />
| occupation = {{Flat list|<br />
* Sculptor<br />
* painter<br />
}}<br />
| years_active = 1961–1973, 2014<br />
| known_for = Original design of the [[Shaheed Minar, Dhaka|Central Shaheed Minar]]<br />
| awards = [[Ekushey Padak]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Novera Ahmed''' (29 March 1939 – 6 May 2015)<ref name=doodle>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/novera-ahmeds-80th-birthday|title=Novera Ahmed's 80th Birthday|work=Google|date=29 March 2022}}</ref> was a modern sculptor of Bangladesh. She was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] by the Government of Bangladesh in 1997.<ref name=bdnews>{{cite news|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/05/07/pioneer-sculptor-novera-ahmed-dies-in-paris|title=Pioneer sculptor Novera Ahmed dies in Paris|date=7 May 2015|publisher=bdnews24.com}}</ref> Artist [[Zainul Abedin]] described her work saying "What Novera is doing now will take us a long time to understand – she is that kind of an artist."<ref name=star2/><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Ahmed was born on 29 March 1939, in Sundarbans in the then [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]].<ref name=doodle/> Her ancestral home was in [[Chittagong]].<ref name=bdnews/> She studied in Calcutta and [[Comilla]]. In 1955 she was awarded a diploma in Design in the Modeling and Sculpture course from [[Camberwell College of Arts]] in London. At Camberwell, she studied under the British sculptor [[Jacob Epstein]] and [[Karel Vogel]] of [[Czechoslovakia]]. In 1966, she met Danish artist [[Asger Jorn]] in Paris.<ref name=expo/> She studied European sculpture under the sculptor [[Venturino Venturi]] in [[Florence]] and later in [[Vienna]]. She was influenced by many western modern sculptors such as [[Henry Moore]].<ref name=star2/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Ahmed jointly worked with [[Hamidur Rahman (artist)|Hamidur Rahman]] on the original design of the [[Shaheed Minar, Dhaka]]. During 1956–1960, she had done about 100 sculptures in [[Dhaka]]. Out of her 100 sculptures, 33 sculptures are currently in [[Bangladesh National Museum]]. Ahmed's first exhibition was held in [[University of Dhaka]] in 1960.<ref name=bdnews/> Another exhibition of her works was held in [[Lahore]] in 1961. Her last exhibition was also held in [[Paris]] in July 1973.<ref name=bdnews/><br />
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==Style and technique==<br />
Ahmed's early works resembled geometrical forms made by stones and concrete and anthropomorphic forms - mixing the human figure and animals.<ref name=expo/> Then she used iron and steel and later bronze. She began spray paintings, using plane crash remains from the US army (1964–1969).<ref name=expo/> After her bad accident, her drawings included shapes and figures of a meditative character: space, island, birds in the sky, phoenix, flowers, water, sunshine and the moon, minimalist landscapes, human figures turned toward a new horizon and others.<ref name=expo/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Ahmed was married to a police officer in mid 1954 in Calcutta.<ref name=hye>{{cite book|last=Hye|first=Hasnat|url=http://www.amarboi.com/2013/04/novera-hasanat-abdul-hye.html|title=Novera|page=389}}</ref> The couple got divorced in late 1954.<ref name=hye/> She started living in France in the 1970s.<ref name=expo>{{cite web|url=http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/index_novera.html|title=Novera, la comète imprévisible|trans-title=The unpredictable comet|accessdate=4 September 2017|publisher=Exporevue Magazine|first=Patrick|last=Amine|date=February 2014|archive-date=14 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514161245/http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/index_novera.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She married Gregoire de Brouhns in 1984.<ref name=star2>{{cite news |title=Novera, pioneer of progressiveness in Bangladesh |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/novera-pioneer-progressiveness-bangladesh-80953 |date=7 May 2015 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Ahmed suffered a stroke in 2010 and she was in a wheelchair since then.<ref name=star2/> She died on 6 May 2015 at a hospital in Paris, France.<ref name=death>{{cite news |title=Sculptor Novera passes away |url=http://thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/sculptor-novera-passes-away-80931 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=6 May 2015 |accessdate=6 May 2022}}</ref> In August 2017, the ministry of cultural affairs of the [[Government of Bangladesh]] announced a plan to purchase ten paintings of Ahmed for $47,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/people-feature/2017/08/31/govt-purchase-novera-paintings/|title=Govt plans to purchase Novera Ahmed paintings|date=31 August 2017|accessdate=4 September 2017|work=Dhaka Tribune|first=Asif|last=Kallol}}</ref><br />
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On 29 March 2019, search engine [[Google]] commemorated Ahmed with a [[Google Doodle|Doodle]] on her 80th birth anniversary.<ref name=doodle/><br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Composition by Novera Ahmed.jpg|Composition<br />
Image:Reclining Figure.jpg|Reclining Figure<br />
Image:Seated Woman Sculpture.jpg|Seated Woman<br />
</gallery><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book|last=Hye|first=Hasnat|year=1995|url=http://www.amarboi.com/2013/04/novera-hasanat-abdul-hye.html|title=Novera|isbn=984-465-072-0|publisher=Sahitya Prakas}}<br />
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{{Artists of Bangladesh}}<br />
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[[Category:2015 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Chittagong]]<br />
[[Category:Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts]]<br />
[[Category:Modern sculptors]]<br />
[[Category:Bangladeshi women sculptors]]<br />
[[Category:Bangladeshi women artists]]<br />
[[Category:Artists from Chittagong]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali women artists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi sculptors]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian sculptors]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century women artists]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]<br />
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