User:M. Eshwariah

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  M. Eshwariah

Introspective, inspired, innovative, self-effacing, generous, original - these are some of the adjectives used to define the Late Sri M. Eshwariah by his colleagues, patrons and friends. He lived a life dedicated to the Muse of Art till his last creative moments with us.

Early Life

M. Eshwariahwas born to a family of Hindu Blacksmiths. His parents Moosaramthota Narayana and Agamma ran a workshop to make and repair chariots / buggies during the Nizam’s reign in Hyderabad. He grew up in a jointfamily. His father was greatly respected in the Vishwakarma community. Though belonging to a large family, the artist always found himself alone. He did his schooling in VivekaVardhani School, at Jam Bagh, Koti.

Eshwariah used to visit his cousin sister’s house in Ameerpet often during his school holidays. An artist from Maharashtra used to be a tenant at his cousin sister’s house. A regular interaction with the artist inculcated an interest towards art in him. Though he was an average student at academics, he learned sign board painting from the artist at an early age.

After completing PUC, he went for Indian Navy Academy Selection at Bombay (now Mumbai). He got rejected because of his under-weight personality. Dejected, he came back to the Maharashtrian artist, and continued sign-board painting. He was encouraged by his artist-mentor to join JNTU Fine Arts College. There he secured admission into Applied Arts rather than Fine Arts. To meet the expenses involved in learning art, he worked at his father’s workshop until his father’s demise in 1963.

Career, Friends & Family

Having obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts, he joined Ad Ventures and started his career as a commercial artist in the agency. But his passion for painting never faded. With a job in hand he now had some monies to explore painting on paper art boards.

Since his college days Dutt, Ratnakar, Rajan Babu and Krishna Murthy were his close friends. The Trio - Dutt, Ratnakar and Eshwariah started a Design firm named as ‘DRE’. However, the sudden demise of Dutt brought the firm to an early closure. After a few years of freelancing, he got a job at the National Institute of Nutrition as a Commercial Artist. Being the eldest brother in the family, he had three younger brothers to take care of. The salary at NIN was inadequate to meet costs and expenses.

In 1969, he got married to Kumari, the daughter of Kondapaka Kalidas and Kamala. Soon after, due to a Court dispute, he had to leave his ancestral bungalow (Gol Bungalow) along with his wife, three brothers and widowed mother.

He also quit his job at NIN and joined VidyutSoudha for a hike in the salary. During the 1969 Telangana agitation he lost his job at VidyutSoudha for being a part of the agitation. A year later, he joined SIET INSTITUTE, Yousufguda, as a Senior Commercial Artist, and remained here till he took voluntary retirement in 1998.

After joining SIET INSTITUTE, over the ensuing years, he explored various art forms like painting (which remained his greatest passion till the very end), sculpture, typography, etching, carving and created some fascinating objects d'art.

His wife Kumari, a very quiet person, contributed as an unseen hand to all his works.They had two daughters Navaneetha and Sangeetha, and a son, Sanjay Kumar. Eshwariah also performed his elder daughter’s marriage with an advocate Kasoju Yadagiri Chary belonging to Azeez Nagar. On, 29 December, 2003 he passed away due to a brain stroke, and was survived by his wife, one unmarried younger daughter, and son. In 2007 his younger daughter Sangeetha married Manchirevula Srinath Chary, belonging to Vengal Rao Nagar. In 2013, his son Sanjay married Mamatha,

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belonging to Mahabubnagar.