Huseyn Aliyev ( az, Hüseyn Əlirza oğlu Əliyev; 22 April 1911 – 26 May 1991) was a painter and
People's Artist
People's Artist is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states (and communist states in general), as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the USS ...
of the
Azerbaijan SSR
Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...
.
Biography
Huseyn Aliyev was born in
Jomerdli (Zangezursky uyezd) on 22 April 1911. He was only 12 years old when he painted his first landscape picture. He studied at Technical School of Art in Baku in 1927-1932. Huseyn Aliyev collaborated with "
Molla Nasraddin (magazine)
''Molla Nasraddin'' ( az, ملا نصرالدین, Molla Nəsrəddin; russian: Молла Насреддин, old orthography: ) was an eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical published in Tiflis (from 1906–17), Tabriz (in 1921) and Baku ...
" from 1922 to 1931, and several of his cartoons were published on the magazine.
He studied at Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1932-1935. He worked as a chief artist and then head of the art design department at the "People's Newspaper" ("Communist") from 1935 to his death.
He was a participant in the
Great Patriotic War
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. He was awarded the medals of "For the Defence of the Caucasus', "For his honorable work in the rear front in 1941-1945", "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and the order of "Friendship of Peoples".
The artist was awarded with the Honorary Decree of Azerbaijan for three times and of The Supreme Soviet of Ukraine. Huseyn Aliyev, a member of the Artists' Union since 1940, was awarded the title of Honorary Artist in 1977 and People's Artist in 1982.
Huseyn Aliyev was not only a landscape painter, but he also had great portrait paintings as "
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov ( az, Mirzə Fətəli Axundov; fa, میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده), also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (12 July 1812 – 9 March 1878), was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, pla ...
","
Huseyn Javid", "
Nizami Ganjavi.
"Castle of Urud", "View of Zangezur", "Zangezur Mountains", "Sheki Waterfall", "View of Jomerdli", "Winter in the Forest", "Autumn", "Sunset" were his most famous landscape paintings. Huseyn Aliyev painted more than 25 watercolors of the
Kapaz Mountain for 2 years. In recent years, Huseyn Aliyev's "Landscapes of Goygol" album was featured. The album has 17 landscape paintings in it.
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In 2004 Huseyn Aliyev's works was demonstrated in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
...
.Saint Petersburg
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in 2011.The exhibition in Saint Petersburg
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Huseyn Aliyev died on 26 May 1991 in Baku.
References
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Azerbaijani painters
Landscape painters
20th-century Azerbaijani painters
Soviet people
1911 births
1991 deaths
Artists from Baku
Portrait painters
People's Artists of Azerbaijan