Mohammad Yusuf Asefi

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Mohammad Yusuf Asefi (* 1961 in Kabul ) is an Afghan doctor and painter .

life and work

Mohammad Yusuf Asefi graduated from the University of Kabul with a doctorate in medicine . In addition, he acquired knowledge of painting.

Mohammad Yusuf Asefi saved over 80 paintings by Afghan artists on the walls of the National Gallery and the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Kabul from destruction by the Taliban . The figurative paintings by well-known Afghan artists (including Abdul Ghafur Breschna , Ghulam Mohammed Maimaneghi and Abdul Aziz), which would have been destroyed by the Taliban for political reasons, were secretly painted over by Asefi between 1990 and 2000. Asefi covered the figurative oil paintings with politically harmless landscape paintings in watercolor. When the Afghan militia marched into the National Gallery to destroy “non-Islamic” art, he pretended to restore these paintings and thus saved them. The watercolors could later be washed off again.

One of these small landscape pictures was exhibited at dOCUMENTA (13) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mohammad Yusuf Asefi / camouflage. accessed on January 29, 2019
  2. ↑ Mohammad Yusuf Asefi: Painting Over to Save Retrieved January 29, 2019
  3. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 25, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
personal data
SURNAME Asefi, Mohammad Yusuf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan doctor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul