Mikayil Abdullayev

Mikayıl Abdullayev
Mikayil Abdullaev in the mid-1960s
Born
Mikayil Abdullayev

(1921-12-19)19 December 1921
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Died21 August 2002(2002-08-21) (aged 80)[1]
Baku, Azerbaijan
NationalityAzerbaijani
Known forImpressionism

Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (19 December 1921, Baku – 21 August 2002, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani painter. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR (1963),[2] and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1963).[3] Abdullayev created a series of paintings entitled Through India.

Biography

Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev was born 19 December 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union. Abdullayev was an alumnus of the A. Azimzadeh Azerbaijan Painting School (1939) and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (1949) (now Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture).[2]

During his trips to India,[4] Afghanistan, Hungary, Poland, Italy and other countries from 1956 through 71, Abdullayev painted Bengali Girls, Rajasthani Women, An Old Afghan, as well as portraits of Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl, Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzù among others. Among portraits of Azerbaijani people, there are those of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Samad Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and Farhad Badalbeyli. Abdullayev's paintings were exhibited in cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, Montreal, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Warsaw, Delhi, Cairo, Brussels. Abdullayev was also the designer of artistic panel in the Nizami Station of Baku Metro.

Notable works

  • 1947 – An Evening
  • 1948 – Mingachevir Lights
  • 1951 – Builders of Happiness
  • 1956 – Sevinj
  • 1963-65 – On the Fields of Azerbaijan triptych
  • 1964 – On the Absheron
  • 1982 – Khachmaz Girls

References

  1. ^ "АБДУЛЛАЕВ Михаил (Микаэл) Гусейн Оглы (1921-2002)". rah.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Xalq rəssamı Mikayıl Abdullayev". Respublika (in Azerbaijani). 28 August 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Abdullayev Mikayil Hüseyn oğlu" [Abdullayev Mikayil Huseyn oglu]. azteatr.musigi-dunya.az. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. ^ "Azerbaijan India Relations". Retrieved 18 January 2011.