Zivar Mammadova

Background

Zivar Mammadova was born in 1902 in Baku, Azerbaijan to the family of Najafgulu Taghiyev, a wealthy businessman, who was also an educated person and a great lover of art. Being himself an artist at heart, he tried to bring up his children with respect for the spiritual and aesthetic values and cultivated the love of art in them.

Education

At the age of 7, Zivar Mammadova entered the gymnasium of St. Nina (now school No. 134) in Baku. During the period of study at the gymnasium, a young talent took a great interest in the study of artistic forms that were new for her - music and painting.

After graduating from the gymnasium, Zivar Mammadova decided to continue her education and enrolled in the Art Courses to study sculpture. The best teachers and foreign specialists in the sphere of culture and art were involved in the process of education in this area at that period.

Having graduated from the courses, Z. Mammadova decided to enter two institutions at the same time - Azerbaijan Higher School of Art (now Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts) and Turkish State Higher School of Music. She managed to combine playing the violin with the fine arts.

Career

After a forced short-term break that was related to her marriage, Zivar Mammadova joined one of the largest projects of the Soviet monumental sculpture on the creation of a monument to Kirov, a statesman and revolutionary. Through participation in such significant projects, gaining experience from the masters of her time, Mammadova continued to grind her skills, gradually developing her own narrative-thematic line of art, preferring to address a portrait genre.

During 1930-1940 Mammadova made bust portraits of A. Azimzade, H. Sarabski, and M. Azizbeyov, among others.

The strong monumentality of Mammadova’s artistic style, her perfect knowledge of the form and material enabled her to try herself both in monumental and indoor sculpture. In her work she could also successfully express herself in large-scale multi-image sculptural compositions.

Besides she created a collection of colorful figurines made of earthenware - dancing girls from Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s "Koroghlu" Opera - that was extraordinary by its decoration.

Achievements

• Zivar Mammadova was best known as the first female sculptor in Azerbaijan. She influenced the formation and further development of the sculptural School of Azerbaijan, as well as predetermined a special role of women in art and in society in general.
  
  Her well-known works included a decorative figure "A girl with a doll" and a bust of a painter Azim Azimzade.

Works

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• artwork

  • Dancer

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1954
  • A girl with a doll

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

• sculpture

  • Üzeyir Hajibeyli

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Farmer woman

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1940
  • Actor Huseyngulu Sarabski

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Bust of The Hero of Soviet Union idris Süleymanov

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

  • Bust of painter Azim Azimzade

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

  • Bust of The Hero of Soviet Union idris Süleymanov, Fragment

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art )

  • Farmer woman, Fragment

    (Azerbaijan National Museum of Art)

    1940

Connections

Zivar Mammadova was married.

Father:

Najafgulu Taghiyev

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.
  2013