Fuad Abdurachmanov

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Fuad Abdurachmanow ( Azerbaijani Fuad Həsən oğlu Əbdürəhmanov ; born May 11, 1915 in Nucha (now Scheki ); † June 15, 1971 in Baku ) was an Azerbaijani sculptor and painter . He is considered to be the first “popular sculptor” of Azerbaijan during the Soviet era. He is also known as a portrait painter. He was one of the most highly decorated artists in the Soviet Union .

Life

Fuad Abdurachmanow was born in 1915 into a middle-class Azerbaijani civil servant family in the city of Nucha (now Sheki ) in the Yelisavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire (in today's Azerbaijan). In 1929 he moved with his family to Jewlach and later that year to Baku , where he began his studies.

After studying at the Azerbaijan State Painting School A. Azimzade (1929–1932) in Baku, the leading art school in Azerbaijan , he studied art at the State Academic Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad .

From 1942 to 1948 he taught at the Azerbaijan State Painting School A. Azimzade.

The first major recognition - the award of the Stalin Prize in 1947 - he received with the creation of the monument to Nezāmi in Kirovabad in 1946. He also sculpted monuments and busts of historical and contemporary famous Azerbaijanis, including some heroes of the Soviet Union and at least two great ones Statues of Lenin in the Soviet Union, as well as several monuments and monumental reliefs in the Azerbaijani SSR and other Soviet republics as well as in other socialist countries.

Although his works corresponded to socialist realism , he retained his independent artistic style in his works.

The National Art Museum of Azerbaijan in Baku is dedicated to the life and work of Fuad Abdurachmanov, among other things.

Works (selection)

honors and awards

See also

literature

  • Abdurachmanoff, F. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 3 .
  • Svetlana V. Butarygina: Abdurachmanov, Fuad Hasan ogly . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 101.
  • Deutsche Bauakademie (Ed.): Thirty years of Soviet architecture in the RSFSR . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1951, DNB  450133036 .
personal data
SURNAME Abdurachmanov, Fuad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasan oglu Abdurachmanow, Fuad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Azerbaijani sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheki
DATE OF DEATH 15th June 1971
Place of death Baku