Interview with Syful Islam

Artist Mohammad Syful Islam was born in Meherpur, Bangladesh, to father Mohammad Naimuddin Biswas, and Rahela Khatun. From his childhood, Syful was very much fond of old classical renaissance paintings, Russian and Chinese paintings. He studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1975.

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He did portraits of people such as Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, AK Fazlul Huq, Maulana Bhashani, Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam and other famous personalities.

A gold medallist in Bangladesh Calligraphy, Syful Islam is also the former teacher of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.