Europe belongs to Picasso, India belongs only to me according to Amrita Shed-Gil

She lived only 28 years  and yet became famous, unparalleled, timeless, innovative, free-spirited, and socially engaged.

Amrita Shed-Gil lived from 1913 to 1941, a difficult time between the two world wars of the last century. With a Hungarian mother and a father from India, Amrita grew up between two cultures. Something that is also my personal experience. As a teenager, she already pursued art education in Florence and Paris. In her short life, she initially created self-portraits, nudes, and scenes from the fashionable life in Paris, primarily featuring women.

Driven by an inner calling to Indian culture, this changed—partly inspired by Indian cave paintings—to interpretations of the simple, impoverished everyday life in India in warm, earthy colors.