Background
Sadig Sharifzade was born on December 5, 1912, in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Voznesensky street, 20, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000
Kyiv National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture where Sadig Sharifzade studied from 1936 to 1939.
Sadig Sharifzade in his studio.
Sadig Sharifzade in his studio.
Sadig Sharifzade in his studio.
Sadig Sharifzade in his studio.
Sadıq Şərifzadə
Sadig Sharifzade was born on December 5, 1912, in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Sadig Sharifzade began his education in Azerbaijan at Azerbaijan School of Art where he studied from 1928 to 1932. Back at that time, he tried his hand as a stage-painter for the first time.
Four years after graduation, Sharifzade became a student of Kyiv State Institute of Art (currently National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture). The lessons that he received from many talented artists during the three subsequent years, including a Russian painter Boris Grigoriev, had a reflection in his early works.
Then, Sadig Sharifzade pursued his education at the Moscow Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. While studying there, he learned the plein-air painting technics and the secrets of color passages. The artist got acquainted with many peers as well. Sharifzade gave up his studies in 1940 when he received a job invitation from Baku.
The start of Sadig Sharifzade’s career can be counted from 1931 when he made his first independent artwork for the Theatre of workers’ children while still a student. After graduation, he continued the collaboration with the Theatre. When it was relocated Ganja, the artist began to collaborate with two more playhouses there. The decorative design of Mirza Shirvanzade’s play ‘Honor’ on which Sharifzade worked in 1933 received many positive reviews.
Seven years later, Sadig Sharifzade took part at the events organized to celebrate the anniversary of a great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. He produced several paintings dedicated to the author and his works, including ‘Shapur and Shirin’ and ‘The death of Daran’ which would be later acquired by the National Museum of Azerbaijani Literature.
During the end of the 1930s, Sharifzade also travelled to Ganja and Shusha cities of Azerbaijan searching for inspiration and improving his skills in painting. The artist reflected the beauty of his native land in such works as ‘Bloody Nokhur’, ‘The twilight’, and ‘Landscapes of Shusha’. One of his major works, ‘Vintage’, also dates to the time.
Sadig Sharifzade continued to explore the historical past of his homeland throughout a couple of the following decades. The artist studied a great number of historical materials on the personalities that he had the intention to portray. The canvases featuring such notable representatives of Azerbaijan, as poet Mahammad Fizuli and revolutionary leader Babek, and more large-scaled works, like multi-figure panel “Babek’s great march”, are considered the highest point of Sharifzade’s career. The part of the works was made in collaboration with another Azerbaijani artist Boyukagha Mirzazade. Sharifzade’s oeuvre of the post-war period was also represented by a number of thematic panels, landscapes and genre works characterized by a wide range color palette and different compositional solutions.
Right after the end of World War II, Sharifzade came back to stage design after 13-years break. In 1946, the artist became a senior art director of Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators. While working in the theatre, he elaborated decorative solutions for more than 30 plays. One of his successful works was the set design of Nizami’s play ‘Intrigue’ staged in 1947 to celebrate the 800 anniversary of the great poet.
Beginning in 1952, Sadig Sharifzade tried his hand in a completely new area, this of caricature and jests. In that capacity, he contributed many figurative and accurate images to a satirical magazine ‘Kirpi’.
A year later, Sharifzade left his post of an art director at Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators and occupied the same position at the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre. He created stage design for dozens of plays by Azerbaijani and foreign authors during the next ten years, including ‘The Star of Seville’ by a Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega.
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