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Fuad Hasan oglu Abdurahmanov (Azerbaijani: Fuad Həsən oğlu Əbdürəhmanov; May 11, 1915, Nukha ( Sheki ), Azerbaijan SSR – June 15, 1971, Baku) – eminent Azerbaijani sculptor-monumentalist, Honoured Worker of Arts of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1955), the first Azerbaijani who became corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949), Laureate of the State Stalin Prize two times (1947, 1951).[1] Biography He was born on May 11, 1915, in Nukha (Sheki) in the family of Hasan Jafar oglu Abdurahmanov-a civil servant. In 1929, Abdurahmanov’s family firstly moved to Yevlakh, and later to Baku. In Baku the family of the future sculptor rented a two-room apartment in Icheri Sheher, on Mammadyarov street. In that very year he entered Painting School of Baku. Later he studied at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (1935–1940) at Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer. In 1934, twelve years old Fuad Abdurahmanov’s composition called “Shot” was exhibited in an exhibition dedicated to 100th anniversary of the poet Ferdowsi and later this composition became a permanent exhibit of exposition of Azerbaijan State Museum of Art named after Rustam Mustafayev. In 1938, Fuad Abdurahmanov began to work on Fuzûlî’s statue opening a pantheon of eminent Azerbaijani poets and writers established on Nizami Museum’s loggia in Baku. A contest for the best pictorial portrait and monument of Nizami Ganjavi declared in connection with 800th anniversary had a great importance at the end of 1930s. As a result of the contest, jury charged Fuad Abdurahmanov, architects S.Dadashov and Mikayil Useynov with this project. In 1947, with the establishment of Nizami’s monument in Ganja was defined image of one of the interesting architectural ensembles of Ganja. The sculptor was awarded the superior award of the USSR-Stalin State Prize for the first time of his life. In 1949, was put up a monument to Nizami in Baku. This monument is “cultic” not only in Abdurahmanov’s creativity, but it also had a great influence on future development of monumental plastic art of Azerbaijan. Both the monument and pedestal had successful proportions of 1:1,5, defining architectural appearance of one of the best squares of Baku. Creative interests of the sculptor were multi-sided, which can be noticed from his later works-images of Huseynbala Aliyev, Khidir Mustafayev -heroes of the USSR, poet Samad Vurgun, composers-Uzeyir Hajibeyov and Asaf Zeynally, historical portraits of Koroghlu, Javanshir, Babek. He was awarded (with Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov) on the contest of a monument to Avicenna for Bukhara city. Fuad Abdurahmanov is the first Azerbaijani who became the corresponding member of Academy of Arts of the USSR. He was one of the first sculptors of Azerbaijan who worked with hard materials.[2] Creative achievements He created monuments to Nizami in Ganja (Stalin State Prize, 1947) and Baku (1949), compositions “Sattar Bahlulzade”, “Rustam Mustafayev” (1947), monument “Azad Gadin” (Free woman), monument to Mehdi Huseynzade in Baku, monumental busts of Choibalsan and Sukhbaatar (marble, 1954, burial vault in Ulan Bator), monuments to poet Samad Vurghun in Baku (1961), to poet Rudaki in Dushanbe (Gold medal of Academy of Arts of the USSR, 1964), statues “Liberation” (Baku, 1960), “Chaban” (gypsum, Stalin State Prize, 1951; bronze, 1951, Tretyakov Gallery). He made portrait bust of V.I.Lenin (marble, 1955, Azerbaijan State Museum of History, Baku) and others. His works are distinguished for heir richness and diversity of creative tendencies. Abdurahmanov began his creative development from portrait genre, by making bust-portraits of cultural workers of Azerbaijan. His first monumental work-monument to Fuzuli-was put up on the balcony of Azerbaijan State Museum of Literature. Fuad Abdurahmanov is the author of a lot of monuments decorating streets and squares of Baku-Nizami, Samed Vurghun, Mehdi Huseynzade, “To emancipated woman", gravestone of General Hazi Aslanov. Abdurahmanov made a great contribution to formation and development of monumental and easel plastics of Azerbaijan. According to one of the leading art critics of Azerbaijan Jamila Novruzova, Fuad Abdurakhmanov is founder of monumental sculpture of Azerbaijan. After Fuad Abdurahmanov were named streets in Baku and Sheki, put up memorial plates on buildings where the sculptor lived, a school in Sheki was also named after him.[3] •Stalin State Prize of the second degree (1947) – for the monument to Nizami in Ganja (1946); •Stalin State Prize of the third degree (1951) – for the sculpture “Chaban”; •Gold medal of Academy of Arts of the USSR (1966); •Holder of two Orders of the Badge of Honour (1949, 1960). ^ "Абдурахманов Фуад Гасан оглы - скульптор". From Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
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