title: Hamidur Rahman (artist)
text: # Hamidur Rahman (artist)
  
  Hamidur Rahman (1928 – 19 November 1988) was a Bangladeshi artist and sculptor. He is best known as the architect of the Shaheed Minar, a national monument in Dhaka, Bangladesh, established to commemorate the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * oil painting (c. 1980) by Hamidur Rahman
  * A mural painted by Novera and Rahman
  * Original plan and model of Shaheed Minar, 1956
  
  ## Death
  
  Hamidur Rahman died on November 19, 1988, in Montreal, Canada.
  
  