People from all walks of life have paid their last respects to noted artist Qayyum Chowdhury at Central Shaheed Minar.
The body of the veteran artist was brought to the Shaheed Minar premises around 12pm.
Earlier in the morning, his body was taken to Dhaka University’s fine arts institute.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at the Dhaka University central mosque in the afternoon.
Later, he was buried at the family graveyard at Azimpur.
Artist Qayyum Chowdhury died at the Combined Military Hospital in the capital on Sunday night.
He had fallen ill at the time of addressing the ongoing Bengal Classical Music Festival at the Army Stadium around 8:40pm. He was immediately rushed to the CMH.
At the CMH, doctors examined his condition and Qayyum was put on life support. Around 9pm, the doctors announced his demise.
Qayyum Chowdhury was born on March 9, 1934 in Feni.
After passing Matriculation from Mymensingh City Collegiate School, he studied at the Dhaka Art Institute. He was a student of the second batch of the institute.
His teachers Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Saifuddin Ahmed had great influence on him.
He joined the institute as a teacher in 1957 but left in 1960. He rejoined the art institute – then renamed as Government Art College of Dhaka – in 1965 as a lecturer in the commercial art department.
He retired from the Institute of Fine Arts (later renamed) in 1994. But, he continued teaching there until 2002.
