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Ganesh Pyne Born and brought up in Kolkata, living in a crumbling family mansion in Kabiraj Row, north Calcutta (now Kolkata), Pyne grew up listening to his grandmother’s folktales and reading fantastic stories from children’s books, which was to create the vocabulary of his future art. Also during his childhood years, he flipped through, Mouchak,…

Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar was born in 1911 in Kattingeri near Udupi, India in a Kannada speaking Shivalli Madhwa Brahmin family. Hebbar was inclined towards art from his childhood, because his father was an occasional sculptor who used to make Ganesha idols. Coming from an artistic family background Hebbar pursued art and formally studied at the…