Background
He was born in Meherpur to father Mohammad Naimuddin Biswas, a government official and Rahela Khatun. His father was an avid writer, who wrote several short novels and poetry.
He was born in Meherpur to father Mohammad Naimuddin Biswas, a government official and Rahela Khatun. His father was an avid writer, who wrote several short novels and poetry.
He studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1975.
His family called him Hiller which later became Hitu. These writings were published in 1993 in Dhaka in the name of Kalsrot. From his childhood, Syful was very much fond of old classical Renaissance paintings, Russian and Chinese revolutionary paintings.
In 1969, he reached Dhaka and displayed a solo art exhibition in Pakistan Council Hall in Segunbagicha.
To support himself, he took a job in the then Fauji Foundation as an Assistant Account Staff. At that time he drew a portrait of Prince Karim Aga Khan for his office.
Soon he was doing many portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He quit his job to and became a free lance painter.
Syful was in all processions and public meetings of Awami League during that period in the 1970s.
In 1975, opposing education ministry and foreign ministry’s approvalsBangobandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as President of Bangladesh sent him to Russia with a special fellowship for portrait painting training. The same year he was assassinated. His first commissioned work was the Kalema Tayyab in 1982.
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