Nek Chand Saini
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1924 –
Who is Nek Chand Saini?
Nek Chand Saini is an Indian self-taught artist, famous for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh, India.
He hailed from Shakargarh region of district Gurdaspur. His family moved to Chandigarh in 1947 during the Partition. At the time, the city was being redesigned as a modern utopia by the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. It was to be the first planned city in India, and Chand found work there as a roads inspector for the Public Works Department in 1951. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1984.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1924
Narowal District - Nationality
- India
- Lived in
- Chandigarh
- Narowal District
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on July 23, 2013
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