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'''Dashrath Patel''' (1927 – 1 December 2010) was an Indian designer, sculptor, who was the founder secretary of the [[National Institute of Design]] (NID), [[Ahmedabad]], from 1961 to 1981.<ref name=zee/>

He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] by [[Government of India]] in 1981,<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |archive-date=2013-05-10 }}</ref> followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]], posthumously in 2011.<ref name=pib2>{{cite press release|title=Padma Awards Announced|url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=69364|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |date=25 January 2011}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Born in 1927 in [[Sojitra]], Gujarat, Patel studied fine arts at [[Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai]] (1949–53), where Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury was his mentor; thereafter studied painting, sculpture and ceramics during his Post Graduate studies at [[École des Beaux-Arts]], Paris (1953–1955).<ref name=hindu/><ref>[http://www.designinindia.net/design-thoughts/teachers/dashrath-patel/biography.html Design Teachers: Dashrath Patel, Biography] designindia.net.</ref>

==Career==
He practiced in diverse art fields as a painter, ceramist, a graphic designer, industrial design and exhibition design. Early in his career he was contemporary of [[Tyeb Mehta]], [[M.F. Hussain]] and [[V. S. Gaitonde]] who were together in the 1950s in Bhulabhai Desai Institute, Mumbai, and often exhibited alongside them. Later [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]] introduced him to photography, after former visited his exhibition at the Galerie Barbizon, Paris.<ref name=fr/><ref>{{cite news |title=Design Dada Dashrath Patel is dead |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Design-Dada-Dashrath-Patel-is-dead/articleshow/7025673.cms |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=2 December 2010 | access-date=17 September 2018 }}</ref> He remained the secretary of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad for its first 20 years, from 1961, he also established the ceramics department at the institute.<ref name=fr>{{cite web |title=Understanding Dashrath Patel |url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1615/16150820.htm |date=17–30 July 1999 |publisher=Frontline, Volume 16 - Issue 15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702104911/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1615/16150820.htm |archive-date=2012-07-02 }}</ref> He resigned from NID in 1981 disillusioned, and went on to establish the Rural Design School in Sewapuri, near [[Varanasi]].<ref name=hindu>{{cite news |title=Thinker in the visual realm |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/Thinker-in-the-visual-realm/article15589949.ece | newspaper=The Hindu |date=12 December 2010 | first=Chitra | last=Padmanabhan | access-date=17 September 2018 }}</ref>

He has collaborated creatives like [[Charles Eames]], [[Louis Kahn|Louis I. Kahn]], [[Frei Otto]], [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]], dancer [[Chandralekha (dancer)|Chandralekha]].<ref name=zee>{{cite news |title=Dashrath Patel's death marks end of a design era |url=http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/art-and-theatre/dashrath-patel-s-death-marks-end-of-a-design-era_76852.htm |publisher=[[Zee News]] |date=3 December 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=DASHRATH PATEL MUSEUM|url=http://www.dashrath.in/|access-date=2021-02-02|website=www.dashrath.in}}</ref>
He died in [[Ahmedabad]] after a brief illness, at the age of 83 on 1 December 2010.

During the last decade of his life, he worked largely from [[Alibag]], near Mumbai, where the Dashrath Patel Museum now houses his multidisciplinary oeuvre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Remembering Dashrath Patel: 1927-2010 |url=http://www.narthaki.com/info/prv10/prv471.html |publisher=Narthaki |date=23 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129004805/http://narthaki.com/info/prv10/prv471.html |archive-date=2012-01-29 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.saffronart.com/artists/dashrath-patel "Dashrath Patel Profile,Interview and Artworks"]
*[http://www.dashrath.in/ Dashrath Patel Museum, website]
*[http://www.design-flute.com/2010/12/02/a-tribute-sdashrath-patel/ Works by Dashrath Patel]
*[http://www.nid.edu/ National Institute of Design]

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[[Category:Alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts]]
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