Charles Fabri

Charles Fabri
Born
Károly Lajos Fábri

18 November 1899
Budapest, Hungary
Died7 July 1968
OccupationArt critic

Charles Fabri (18 November 1899 – 7 July 1968) was a Hungarian art critic, writer, and Indologist. He was a former curator of the Kern Institute Library, Leiden University, curator of the Lahore Museum, Pakistan, and later lecturer at the National Museum of India, New Delhi, before lecturing at the Architecture and Art Departments of Delhi Polytechnic.

Early life and education

Károly Lajos Fábri was born on 18 November 1899 in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family.[1][2] He had one older brother and his father owned a chain of hotels.[3] During the First World War, he served in the army, and after, as he began university, his family lost its fortune.[3]

In 1924 Fabri completed a masters in philosophy, psychology and Germanic philology from the University of Pécs, and three years later gained a doctorate in philosophy.[2] At university he also undertook a personal study of Indology and Indian art.[2] He gained his PhD in philosophy in 1927.[2]

Career

Between 1927 and 1934 Fabri was curator of the Kern Institute Library, Leiden University.[2] From 1930 to 1934 Fabri worked with Aurel Stein on the Archaeological Survey of India in India,[4] and accompanied Stein to India in 1932 to work on the Indus Valley excavations.[3]

1933-1936

In 1933 Rabindranath Tagore invited Fabri to teach art history at Santiniketan.[5][6]

Lahore (1937)

Exhibition opening at Lahore 1937

Fabri became a British citien in 1937.[4] That year he first met artist Amrita Sher-Gil in November, when as art critic for the Civil and Military Gazette, he reported on her solo exhibition held in the ballroom of Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India.[7] There, with the assistance of Diwan Chaman Lall, Fabri acquired The Little Girl in Blue and it remained in his family until being sold in 2018.[7][8][a] He also assisted in the sale of The Vina Player to the Lahore Museum.[5] He wrote that "Miss Sher-Gil's oeuvre is essentially modern without being fantastic. Simplification and the grasping of important essentials are the key-note in most of her work and there is a certain quality of decorativeness in most of her canvases. Her most fascinating subjects are women and children."[10] In an essay he wrote after her death, he called her a "miraculous marriage of Indian and Western, brought up in the discipline of western painting, suffused in her mental make-up with Indian feeling and attitudes".[3]

1938 onwards

Inder Kumar Gujral, Indrani Rahman with Ram Rahman, Satish Gujral, MF Husain, Charles Fabri

Between 1938 and 1945 he was director of the Punjab Exploration Fund.[2]

Between 1945 and 1947 Fabri was curator of the Lahore Museum.[2] In 1947 he married Ratna Mathur.[3] He took up Indian citizenship in 1947.[4] From 1947 to 1950 he lectured at the National Museum of India, New Delhi.[2]

For The Statesman he became critic for dance, drama and art.[5]

In 1947 Fabri published Indian Flamingo: A Novel of Modern India.[11] Set in the 1930s it features a Lahore Museum director falling in love with a 23 year old painter based on Sher-Gil.[11] The dedication in the book reads " to the beloved, undying memory of AMRITA and her sisters and brothers of the new India".[11]

From 1950 to 1959 Fabri lectured at the Architecture and Art Departments of Delhi Polytechnic.[2] His masterpiece, Fundamental: History of Indian Art (1956-1958), created with the assistance of the Bollingen Foundation, remains unpublished.[3]

Death and legacy

Fabri died in July 1968, around two years after being diagnosed with throat cancer.[3] He is remembered for his contributions to Indian art, and to recognising Odissi as a classical dance.[3]

Selected publications

Thesis

  • William James: egy filozófus arcképe (William Jones: the portrait of a philosopher) (1928), Pécs (Specimina Dissertationum Facultatis Philosophiae Regiae Hungaricae Universitatis Elisabethianae Quinqueecclesiensis 6). – PhD thesis Pécs.

Articles

  • Fábri, C. L. (July 1931). "Two Notes on Indian Head-dress". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 63 (3): 597–601. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00110627. ISSN 1474-0591.
  • Fábri, C. L. (April 1935). "The Punch-marked Coins: A Survival of the Indus Civilization". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 67 (2): 307–318. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00086482. ISSN 2051-2066.
  • Fabri, Charles L. (1954). "Review of Drāviḍa and Kerala in the Art of Travancore". Artibus Asiae. 17 (3/4): 328–330. doi:10.2307/3249065. ISSN 0004-3648.

Books

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Fabri either bought it or Sher-Gil gifted to him.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Fabri, Charles Louis – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen". 9 February 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Fabri, Charles Louis - Home of Dutch Studies". www.dutchstudies-satsea.nl (in Dutch). 6 January 2017. Archived from the original on 1 September 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Dalmia, pp.99-105
  4. ^ a b c Khullar, Sonal (2012). "9. Nationalist tradition and modernist art". In Dalmia, Vasudha; Sadana, Rashmi (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-521-51625-9.
  5. ^ a b c Sundaram, pp. 424-425
  6. ^ Khan, Ahmed Nabi (1978). "The Indus Valley Script: A Survey of the Attempts at its Decipherment". In Leeuw, J. E. van Lohuizen-de; Prematilleke, L.; Indrapala, K. (eds.). Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume. Vol. VII. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 120. ISBN 90-04-05455-3.
  7. ^ a b Sundaram, pp. 418-423
  8. ^ Tripathi, Smita (28 November 2018). "Tyeb Mehta and Amrita Sher-Gil to lead Sotheby's first auction in India". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  9. ^ Sundaram, p. 184
  10. ^ "Well known artist dies in Lahore". Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore). 7 December 1941. p. 4.
  11. ^ a b c Sundaram, p. 432
  12. ^ Thobani, Sitara (2017). "2. Setting the scene: a transcultural history of Indian dance". Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire's Stage. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-1-315-38734-5.

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