25 Facts About Baburao Painter

Baburao Krishnarao Mestry, popularly known as Baburao Painter was an Indian filmmaker and artist.

Baburao Painter was a man of many talents with proficiency in painting, sculpture, film production, photography, and mechanical engineering.

Baburao Painter had only studied till class four or five in a Marathi medium school.

Baburao Painter's father Krishnarao Mestry was a blacksmith and carpenter by profession, but he excelled in painting, stone and marble sculpting along with ivory carving.

Baburao Painter inherited art from his father and learned the basics of the same from him.

Baburao Painter taught himself to paint and sculpt in academic art school style.

Baburao Painter captured local scenes with the camera, like children jumping to swim in Rankala Lake and women washing clothes on the banks of the Panchganga River.

Baburao Painter founded the Maharashtra Film Company in 1918, which was set up on the site of today's Keshavrao Bhosale Natyagriha.

Baburao Painter chose the story of Seeta Swayamwar for his first film as Hindu mythology was a popular theme that guaranteed viewership.

Baburao Painter had several landmarks in Indian film history, from building the first indigenous camera to casting first women in films.

Baburao Painter changed the concept of set designing from painted curtains to solid three-dimensional lived in spaces and introduced artificial lighting.

Baburao Painter directed talkies like Usha, Savkari Pash, Pratibha and Rukmini Swayamwar, but they did not gain much success.

When Baburao Painter directed the film Vishwamitra in Mumbai, it did not fare well.

Baburao Painter got back to painting and sculpture, his original vocation.

Baburao Painter made a cloth banner for the publicity of the film Sairandhri which was displayed at Aryan theatre in Pune.

Baburao Painter's paintings and sculptures were an integral part of his personality because at the core, he was an artist.

Baburao Painter's paintings include portraits, group compositions, mythological subjects, and a few landscapes.

Baburao Painter was inclined towards the romanticism outlook of Pre-Raphaelite painters in 19th-century England.

Baburao Painter's specialty was to create an imaginative image of the person in front of him with clean colors while maintaining the hues.

Baburao Painter's paintings were characterized by mild hues, dynamic lines, tonal value of the whole picture, and the delicate touch of the brush along with the combination of shapes with each other.

Baburao Painter built his own casting furnace to make bronze statues.

Baburao Painter's noted sculptures include that of Shivaji Maharaj, Mahatma Gandhi and the bust of Jyotirao Phule.

Baburao Painter continued to produce work in various art mediums till the end of his life.

Baburao Painter married Lakshmibai in 1927 and had eight children - six daughters and two sons.

Baburao Painter died of heart attack in Kolhapur on 16 January 1954.