Naser Houshmand Vaziri

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Nāser Houshmand Vaziri (

sculptor
.

Biography

Naser Houshmand Vaziri was born in 1946 in

Hamedan, Pahlavi Iran. At the age of five he moved with his parents to Tehran. He considered his mother as the single most important influence on him as well as his artistic life.[1] He was a graduate of the fine arts faculty of University of Tehran
.

After graduating from university, Vaziri began to work in his sculpting

.

Vaziri was the creator of twenty-five of the real-size sculptures that have been installed in the Laundry Museum of

Zanjān and of the thirty sculptures of the Bagh-e Ferdowsi [5] (The Garden of Ferdowsi
) in northern Tehran.

Although

taxidermist.[6] The sculptor and painter Roksānā Houshmand Vaziri[7] and the physicist and sculptor Rāmā Houshmand Vaziri[8]
are daughters of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri.

Nāser Houshmand Vaziri died of a heart attack on Friday, 2019/06/28, he was 73, the Association of Iranian Sculptors announced.[9]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Javād Montazeri, The Sculptor of Lavāsān, in Persian, Jadid Online, 8 May 2009.
  2. ^ Doctor Fātemi Street is named after Dr Hossein Fātemi. For a satellite image of the location, click here. Doctor Fātemi Street is adjacent to the "+" sign in the centre of the image.
  3. ^ Lavāsān is to the north of Latiyān Dam. For a satellite image of the location, click here.
  4. Alborz Mountains which border Tehran
    in the North.
  5. ^ Bagh-e Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran, Agha Khan Award for Architecture, Awards 1999-2001 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ Official Website of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri
  7. ^ See Roksānā Houshmand Vaziri Archived 2010-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ See Rāmā Houshmand Vaziri Archived 2010-06-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ https://www.honaronline.ir/Section-visual-4/136286-sculptor-naser-houshmand-vaziri-dies-at

External links

  • Official Website of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri.
  • Photographs of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri, by Masoud Soheili, 2004: [1].
  • Some photographs of the Laundary Museum of Zanjān: Main entrance (1), interior (2), interior (3).
  • Javād Montazeri, The Sculptor of Lavāsān, in Persian, Jadid Online, 8 May 2009, [2].
    Audio slideshow: [3] (5 min 15 sec).