Artist Qayyum Chowdhury was laid to rest at the family graveyard at Azimpur in the capital yesterday.
The body of the veteran artist was taken to the Central Shaheed Minar around noon. People from all walks of life – his colleagues and students, cultural activists, friends and family members and general people – paid their last respects to the noted artist at the Shaheed Minar.
Earlier in the morning, his body was taken to the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University where he taught almost his entire professional life.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at the Dhaka University central mosque in the afternoon.
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 Bengal Classical Music Festival at the Army Stadium around 8:40pm.
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. His teachers Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Saifuddin Ahmed had a 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.
