What is Murtaja Baseer?
{{infobox person |name=Murtaja Baseer |native_name=মুর্তজা বশীর |native_name_lang=bn |image = Mortaza Bashir.jpg |caption = Baseer in 1954 |birth_date={{birth date|1932|8|17|df=y}} |birth_place=[[Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] |death_date={{death date and age|2020|8|15|1932|8|17|df=y}}<ref name=TDS15AUG/> |death_place=[[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]] |death_cause= [[COVID-19]] |resting_place= [[Oropesa del Mar]] |nationality=Bangladeshi |occupation=Painter |father=[[Muhammad Shahidullah]] |relatives=[[Muhammad Takiullah]] (brother) |alma_mater={{unbulleted list|[[University of Dhaka]]|[[Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze|Academy of Fine Arts of Florence]]|[[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]]}} |awards=[[Ekushey Padak]] }} '''Murtaja Baseer''' (17 August 1932 &ndash; 15 August 2020<ref name=TDS15AUG>{{Cite web|title=Eminent artist Murtaja Baseer passes away|url=https://www.daily-sun.com/post/499495/Eminent-artist-Murtaja-Baseer-passes-away|access-date=2020-08-15|website=[[Daily Sun (Bangladesh)]]|language=en}}</ref>) was a Bangladeshi painter.<ref name=turn>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=199036|title=Murtaja Baseer turns 80|date=August 18, 2011|access-date=February 11, 2016|publisher=The Daily Star}}</ref> He was also a poet, short story writer, novelist, researcher, numismatist, and filmmaker.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/the-daily-star-honours-24-individuals-213121|title=Daily Star honours 25 scholars, nation builders|date=2016-02-05|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-11-25|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ahmed |first=Monwar |date=1993 |title=Bhasha Andoloner Sochitro Dolil |location=Dhaka |publisher=Agamee Prokashani |pages=90–91 |isbn=984-401-147-7}}</ref> He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 1980 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|title=একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher