Abdur Razzaque

Throughout his lifetime he won many awards and among them the significant ones are Ekushe Padak (highest national award) for contribution in Fine Arts, Govt of Bangladesh in 1989 and 1989 : Bangladesh Charushilpi Sangshad Award. He also won an Award in Graphic Medium, was honored with Mymensingh Sahitya Sangshad Honour for Greater Faridpur District Honour.

After completing his studies in the United States, he returned to Dhaka and joined as an appointed teacher at Government Institute of Arts. He established a Sculpture Department in the East Pakistan College of Arts and Crafts (former Government Institute of Arts) in 1963 and later became the principal of this institution in 1983. He spent a big portion of his lifetime at the Institute of Fine Arts in University of Dhaka both as a teacher and administrator. At first, he became the Director in charge of the institution, after few years took up the position of an appointed professor, retired in 1993 but was reappointed with a 5-year arrangement under a new law added by University Of Dhaka. In 1998 he went to full retirement but after that, he worked as a part-time teacher at Institute of Fine Arts from 1998 to 2002.

Abdur Razzaque married Mustari Begum in 1961. They had two sons and one daughter (Rumana Shumi Chowdhury).

Abdur Razzaque was born in Shariatpur district and spent early years of his life in Faridpur. He passed his matriculation exam from Faridpur High School, passed his higher secondary examination in Science group from Rajendra College of Faridpur with a second division and later in 1949 he was admitted into the Government Institute of Arts, thus shifting from Faridpur to Dhaka city. In 1954 he graduated from Institute of Arts with a first class and served as an artist-cum-Museum Curator, in Malaria Research Institute of Dhaka for a year. A Fulbright Scholarship was offered to him by the State University of Iowa, in Fine Arts for post-graduate studies. Later the same university offered him an International Scholarship and Research Assistantship in the same field. Abdur Razzaq is known to be the first Bangladeshi who received a postgraduate degree in fine arts from abroad.

Abdur Razzaque (1932–2005) was a Bangladeshi artist. He is known as one of the significant artists of newly founded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the 1950s and studied at the Art College (currently known as the Institute of Fine Art, Dhaka University) along with other pioneers from that time including Murtaja Baseer, Rashid Chowdhury, Qayyum Chowdhury, Humayun Kabir, Zunabul Islam, Ekramul Huq, Emdad Hossain and others. His art style is considered to be very versatile due to his usage and practice using three different mediums: sculpting, painting, and printmaking.