Elmira Hüseynova

Background

Elmira Hüseynova was born on February 12, 1933 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her mother was a physician, and her father, Mehrali Huseynov, was a chemist.

Education

From an early age, Elmira Hüseynova wanted to become an artist. She attended Baku Art School named after Azim Azimzade, graduating from it in 1954.

She then continued her education at the Leningrad Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Y. Repin (nowadays Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), graduating from it in 1960.

Career

Elmira Hüseynova began exhibiting her works in 1957, in both Azerbaijan and in various republics of the USSR. Her exhibitions mainly focused on cultural icons - literary figures, scientists, war heroes and ordinary working people.

For sculpture, she worked with a variety of media, including bronze, ceramics, epoxy resin, marble, plaster, stone, and wood. She also worked with different types of woods.

During her career, Elmira Hüseynova created sculptures for the tombs of Jafar Jabbarly (1968) and Rasul Rza (1970), as well as a bas-relief of Lev Landau and a monument to Hasan bey Zardabi (1983), which stands in Icheri Sheher at the entrance to the publishing house of the Azerbaijan Encyclopedia.

Her other noted works include a statue of Dmitri Mendeleev on the loggia of the National Library of Azerbaijan in Baku, a monument to Jafar Jabbar in Sumgayit (1966) and a painting on canvas in the Milli Mejlis building featuring a portrait of Nizami Ganjavi.

Achievements

• Elmira Hüseynova was most noted for her sculptures and her originality of composition. Some of her most noted works included "The Farm Collective Girl" (1957), "Worker" (1958), "Family" (1960), and "Step-mother" (1970).
  
  In addition, Hüseynova was named an Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1967.
  
  Her works were also included in the permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan State Art Galleries, as well as in private collections.

Works

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• artwork

  • Gravestone of Jafar Jabbarly

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

• sculpture

  • A student girl from Poland

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1962
  • Azerbaijani woman

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1957
  • Hasan bey Zardabi

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Portrait of Asmar

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1963
  • Portrait of Sattar

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1965
  • Portrait of Togrul

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

    1979
  • Family

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1963
  • Portrait of a man

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Portrait of a woman

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Portrait of Toğrul

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

  • Worker

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1958
  • Step-mother

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1976
  • Portrait of Sevinj

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Portrait of a man

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

  • Portrait of Ralfrid Hasanov

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Portrait of a man

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

    1965
  • Family

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1978
  • Portrait of Tahira

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

    1968
  • Portrait of Academician

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1983
  • Gravestone of poet Rasul Rza

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Bäs-relief of Academician Lev Landau

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Gravestone of writer Mehdi Hüseyn

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

  • Family

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1966

Connections

Elmira Hüseynova was married to Togrul Narimanbekov. The couple had a daughter, Asmar Narimanbekov, who was named after her mother's brother and became an Honored Artist of Azerbaijan as well.

Father:

Mehrali Huseynov

Spouse:

Togrul Narimanbekov

Daughter:

Asmar Narimanbekov

References

• "Servet" series of albums. The National Heritage project. The National Heritage project. As part of The National Heritage project implemented by Xalq Bank, Azerbaijan National Museum of Art under the head of Chingiz Farzaliyev prepared the "Servet" series of albums dedicated to the masters of Azerbaijani art.
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