Not far from the Eischenheim tower, over the roofs of Frankfurt, lived and worked the Indian painter Vishwanath Nageshkar. After the completion of his studies at the Academy in Bombay, after the visit to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and to the Munich Academy, Nageshkar painted many remarkable paintings. Vishwanath G. Nageshkar, a Goan origin but born and brought up in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He belongs to the first generation of Modern Indian artists, which was a crucial phase of transition from traditional to modern. He was born on 18th April 1910 and died on 18th March 2001.

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