Amar Nath Sehgal (5 February 1922 – 28 December 2007) was a noted Indian modernist sculptor, painter, poet and art educator.

His long romance with Luxembourg goes back to 1966 when he had his first solo exhibition at the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Arts in Luxembourg-City.

The bronze bust, a gift by the philanthropist Henry J. Leir was inaugurated on 21 June 1973 in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affaires Gaston Thorn and the Ambassador of India to Luxembourg K. B. Lall.

[3][4] During the riots that preceded the partition of India in 1947, he left Lahore in May 1947 and travelled to Eastern Punjab and Kangra-Kullu Valley, with his family, where he witnessed macabre killings of local Muslim minority.

[5] He met his god mother Miss Elmina Lucke, who convinced him to study in New York city and live in the East Village.

Themes of much of his oeuvre revolved around the importance of individual freedom and human dignity, and his response the horrors of political violence.

When in the following years despite his request no action was taken, He filed a case at the Delhi High Court seeking damages.

The government was also asked to return his mural[13][14][15] Besides art, Sehgal was also a poet, he published two collection of his poems, Lonesome Journey (1996) and Awaiting a New Dawn (1998).

[4] A bronze sculpture titled, The Captive, first designed by Sehgal for the UN conference on sanctions against South Africa, held in Paris in 1986 was later installed in Robben Island, Cape Town, Nelson Mandela's former island prison, on National Women's Day, 9 August 2011.

[16][17] In the following year, a large stone sculpture by him, "Aiming For Excellence" was installed at the DDA Yamuna Sports Complex in New Delhi.