Shahin Charmi (born September 17, 1953) is an Iranian-born German multimedia artist, muralist, and painter.

Biography

Shahin Charmi was born on September 17, 1953, in Iran. He studied at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel, Germany (from 1980 until 1985), under Harald Duwe and Peter Nagel. Charmi is married to Austrian artist Patricia Bolf-Charmi. In November 1989, Charmi painted the mural titled, (English: Revolution and War), located at the Polecat Bunker (German: Iltisbunker Zeichnet) in the Gaardner district of Kiel. The mural is a narrative of the historical events from November 1918 and the Kiel sailor uprising, to World War II, and the murder of

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

. In 1990, Charmi was awarded the Golden Plotter Award, for computer art by the city of Gladbeck in Germany. In 2011, Charmi worked on stage design for ''Rustam and Esfadyar'', for the Fajr Theater Festival at the

City Theater of Tehran The City Theater ( fa, تئاتر شهر, ''Teātr-e Šahr'') is a performing arts complex in Tehran, the capital of Iran. This complex is considered as the main outlet of Iran artistic theater. It was built with the initiative of Shahbanu Farah P ...

and Vahdat Hall.

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1953 births Artists from Kiel Iranian artists Iranian emigrants to Germany German multimedia artists German muralists Living people {{Germany-artist-stub