K.G. Ramanujam

K.G. Ramanujam (1941–1973) was a Tamil painter associated with the Cholamandal Artists’ Village near Chennai. He worked primarily in ink and works on paper, developing a densely figurative style drawing on folk and fantastical imagery.

If you have a work attributed to K.G. Ramanujam, contact: southasia@privatkunst.ch

Privatkunst.ch grew from a personal interest in works that carry a history. There is always more behind a work of art than first appears — and most stories are not yet fully told.

Many objects in private hands were never properly assessed — because no one with the right knowledge looked at them. That has changed. Open research archives, digitised auction catalogues, and image analysis now make it possible to understand a work in new ways and with a depth of information that simply did not exist before. A work rarely stands alone. And it carries its history within it — if you know how to read it.

If you are interested in how archives, reference sources and new technologies are contributing to the assessment of art, see the article here → — currently only in German.

For an overview of Indian art — modern, contemporary, and the recognition women artists are finally receiving — read here →