Manik Bagh: A forgotten marvel of modernist architecture
Live MintAs soon as you enter Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh: Pioneering Modernism in India at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, you get a sense of having travelled back in time. A selection of 50 vintage black-and-white photographs, watercolours, architectural drawings and design studies highlight how all these aspects came together thousands of miles away at Manik Bagh, Indore. The first section introduces the viewers to the main characters of the story—Yeshwant Rao Holkar II and his wife Sanyogita Devi of the erstwhile royal family of Indore, and the German architect Eckart Muthesius. The highlights of this segment include two Man Rays—a half-length seated portrait of Yeshwant Rao Holkar II taken in 1930, and the other of the royal couple as they pose happily in 1933.
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