Morteza Katouzian

Background

Morteza Katouzian was born on July 3, 1943 in Islamic Republic of Iran in a middle-class, art-loving family.

Education

Katouzian loved painting since childhood, and he spent all his time on learning this art without any teacher.

Career

Katouzian started graphics and painting work professionally in 1960. In 1974 he accepted the responsibility of holding Tehran International Graphics Exhibition named “African Starvelings” sponsored by I.A.A. international organization.

He was one of the founders of Graphic Artists’ syndicate in the years before the Iranian revolution and he was its head of the board for 2 years. During the past years, he has attended several collective exhibitions and held 4 solo exhibitions.

Moreover, Katouzian taught painting for 30 years, and dozens of his paintings have been presented to the society of art from his small studio. To introduce and encourage his students, he held 3 collective exhibitions for them and attended one exhibition along with them at the Museum of Contemporary Arts.

Achievements

• Katouzian is famous for his works, including "What Remained", "The Letter", "A Day Morning" and "Tired Old Man" among others.
  
  Besides, at his exhibition at Saad-Abad Cultural-Historical Complex, during which were exhibited 94 of his works, on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, Katouzian received UNESCO award in respect of his 50 years of activities in the field of painting and his 30 years of unfeigned teaching to Iranian youth.
  
  Currently, five of his paintings are in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts and a big number of them are in the collections of Iranian and foreign collectors in different countries.
  
  Katouzian is also one of the pioneers of Karate, holding Black Belt Dan 7 from Karate Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran since 1970.

Works

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  • A 105 Year -old Farmer Form Qamsar Kashan

    1993

  • Dr. Mohammad Mosadeq

  • The Destiny

    1980

  • What Remained

  • Keepsake

  • Portrait

    1985

  • The Grandmother

  • The Oldman and the Tea

  • Needy Woman in Cold

    2002

  • Before the End

  • Years of Loneliness

  • The Passage of Life

    1988

  • The Crisis

  • Portrait

  • In the Memory of Parvin Etesami

  • Hollow People

  • Dread

  • Untitled

  • A Day Morning

  • On the Pavement

  • Untitled

    2002

  • The Hands of the Musician

  • Waiting Without Hope!

  • Exhausted from Work

  • Master Hossein Behzad(Miniaturist)

    1991

  • Regretful

  • A Girl with a Doll

  • A Girl in the Shadow

    1992

  • The Baluch

    1995

  • Old man by the Window

  • Familiar Strangers

  • For the Martyrs

  • Untitled

  • The Letter

  • The Boy & Electronic Calculator

  • The Red Alert

  • The Dead-End.

  • Painters' Neighborhood

    2002

  • The Guitar Player

    2002

  • The Girl and the sea

  • The Life

  • Tired Old Man

  • Untitled

  • Grief

  • The Fall Blossoms

  • Doubt

  • Worried

  • Portrait

    1997

  • Dr. Haj Seyed Javadi (Writer)

  • Children in the Alley

  • Reading Holy Book

    2002

  • Old Dervish in the Mosque

  • Flight 655

  • Portrait

    1995

Personality

In his youth, Katouzian spent his free time on sports. In 1970, he was the first person who could get Karate black belt in Iran.

Interests

• Sport & Clubs

  Karate

Connections

Student:

Iman Maleki

Iman Maleki was one of the students of Morteza Katouzian.

Student:

Majid Arvari

Majid Arvari was one of the students of Morteza Katouzian.