[4] His father, Matinuddin Ahmed, was a sub-registrar in the land office of the Government of Bengal and his mother, Bibi Jamila Khatun, was a housewife.

The road in front of his house was named "Bachu Daktar Lane" after Aminuddin Ahmed's death under the initiative of the "Kolkata municipality".

[4] Ahmed came into proximity with many people while studying in the art school from 1930 to 1942 as he practiced painting nature studies and landscapes and went to draw people with the students to the bank of the Ganges, the zoo and the Sealdah station, likewise he want to studio in the home of the teacher prohlad, which always had its door open to visitors, was also frequented by Dilip Dasgupta, Zainul Abedin and others.

Even now in the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata at the bachelor's degree level, printmaking is taught as a subject painting.

The color of these two paintings are strongly flat, the edges or contours of the forms subjective exaggeration has been resorted to rather than attempting to remain faithful to pictorially reconstruct the visual world in his own way.

He visited different galleries of England, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Soviet Union and India.

[citation needed] Ahmed helped raise the profile of a printmaking, a discipline often considered of secondary importance, by adopting it as his main medium.

Though Ahmed had been born and brought up in the city, he selected the landscape and life of the people in particularly remote areas of Radha Vangaand Jharkhand as the setting of his works.