Alakbar Rezaguliyev
Alakbar Rezaguliyev Ələkbər Rzaquliyev | |
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Nationality | Azerbaijani |
Occupation | Painter |
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Alakbar Rezaguliyev (31 January 1903 in Baku, Baku Governorate – 31 January 1974 in Baku) (alternative spelling: Alekper Rzaguliyev) (Azerbaijani: Ələkbər Rzaquliyev; Russian: Алекпер Рзакулиев) was an Azerbaijani artist. He was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1964).
Early life
Alakbar was born in Baku, into the large family of a small businessman-shopkeeper. Although there were no artists in his family, Rezaguliyev showed artistic talent at an early age. He studied at Moscow Technical Art College from 1925 to 1928.[1] After graduation, he returned to Baku.
Years in exile
Alakbar was among the first to be arrested in what would later be termed as
On November 3, 1937, again Alakbar was arrested. He told his fellow artist
During his exile, Alakbar married a German girl named Berta, who had been sent to Siberia from a German settlement in the Saratov Autonomous Region. When World War II broke out, Joseph Stalin had exiled all Germans living in the Soviet Union. Alakbar and Berta had two sons, Ogtay and Aydin, and a daughter, Sevda.
After Exile
After Stalin died in 1953, tens of thousands of prisoners were released from prison. Alakbar, too, was among those who eventually were able to return to Azerbaijan. The exile greatly affected his personality. He became very serious and morally broken. It even affected his creative activity. He very seldom used colors after returning home. The harsh experiences of imprisonment that he had suffered for more than two decades, after all, had been his fate merely through association and not based on any crime that he had ever committed himself.[2]
References
- ^ "Art As Memory, Alakbar Rezaguliyev's Prints of Azerbaijan" by Jean Patterson, in Azerbaijan International (Autumn 2002), Vol. 10:3, pp. 32-37
- ^ a b c Street Scenes from Yesteryear, The Prints of Alakbar Rezaguliyev in Azerbaijan International (Summer 2000), Vol. 8:2, pp. 16-17.
External links
- To view works of Rezaguliyev, visit AZgallery.org