Hossein Behzad

Description:

1894 - 1968
51 x 34,5 cm (o.R.)
Mythological scene in opaque pigments on paper. Signed, passepartout, in fine frame with lacquer decoration.
Old label on the reverse with dedication: Herrn Dr. h.c. Carl Diem in memory of Tehran-Iran 1957 by K. Kasemeini
Collection of Prof. Dr Hermann Schröder (1902-1991), Aachen, and expanded by his family
Hossein Behzad (1894 - 13 October 1968; Persian: حسین بهزاد) was a well-known Iranian painter. His early work was in the style of the old masters of Persian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the hope of saving Persian miniature painting from oblivion. He moved to Paris in 1934 where he stayed a little over a year to study different schools of painting. It was during his residency in France that he developed a new style of miniature painting, integrating the traditional style of the masters of Safavid painting in a contemporary context. His works have been exhibited globally, including Iran (in the Iran Bastan Museum, 1953 on the occasion of the millennium of Ibn Sina); France (the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1955); The United States of America (the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1956), and Finland (the Olympic Painting Exhibition, Helsinki, 1952)