Jagdish Mittal

{{Short description|Indian artist (1925–2025)}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|01|07|1925|09|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Hyderabad, Telangana, India

| awards = Padma Shri

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Jagdish Chandra Mittal (16 September 1925 – 7 January 2025) was an Indian artist and art collector. His collection is housed in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum. In 1990, he was awarded the Padma Shri.{{Cite web |title=Gazette of India |url=https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/Document/pdf/notifications/PadmaAwards/1990.pdf}}

Life and career

Mittal was born on 16 September 1925.{{Cite news |last=Nanisetti |first=Serish |date=2024-09-08 |title=Portrait of an art collector at 100 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/portrait-of-an-art-collector-at-100/article68613914.ece |access-date=2024-10-09 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}} In 1945, he graduated from the Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan.{{Cite web |last=Parvathy |first=Navya |date=2023-10-15 |title=Finding art in a ragged cloth, The Jagdish Mittal way |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/good-news/2023/Oct/15/finding-art-in-a-ragged-cloth-the-jagdish-mittal-way-2624093.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}

In the 1950s, Jagdish and his wife settled in Hyderabad. In 1976, they established the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian art at their residence.{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Vishwaveer |date=2018-08-19 |title=Custodian of Culture |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/sunday-chronicle/cover-story/190818/custodian-of-culture.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=www.deccanchronicle.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Parvathy |first=Navya |date=2023-10-15 |title=Finding art in a ragged cloth, The Jagdish Mittal way |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/good-news/2023/Oct/15/finding-art-in-a-ragged-cloth-the-jagdish-mittal-way-2624093.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}

Mittal died on 7 January 2025, at the age of 99.{{Cite news |last=Nanisetti |first=Serish |date=2025-01-07 |title=Jagdish Mittal: The artist as an aesthete and patron of artists |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/jagdish-mittal-the-artist-as-an-aesthete-and-patron-of-artists/article69073407.ece |access-date=2025-01-07 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}

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