Chingiz Akhmarov
{{short description|Uzbek muralist, portraitist, miniature painter and teacher}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Chingiz Akhmarov
| native_name = {{lang|uz|Чингиз Ахмаров}}
| image = Chingiz Akhmarov.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|08|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Troitsk, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|03|13|1912|08|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = Tashkent, Uzbekistan
| education = Perm School of Fine Arts
Surikov Art Institute
| known_for = Paintings
| occupation = Artist, educator
| notable_works=
| awards = USSR State Prize
State Hamza Prize
}}
Chingiz Akhmarov (Uzbek: {{lang|uz|Чингиз Ахмаров}}; 18 August 1912, Troitsk - 13 March 1995, Tashkent) was an Uzbek muralist, portraitist, miniature painter and teacher.{{cite web|url=https://aysel.co.uk/vistavki_2012_goda/shirin.html|script-title=ru:День шедевра. Ахмаров Чингиз Габдрахманович "Ширин"|trans-title=Masterpiece Day. Akhmarov Chingiz Gabdrakhmanovich "Shirin"|publisher=Aysel|access-date=2024-02-25|language=ru}} In 1964, he was conferred the title People's Artist of Uzbekistan.{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-karimova-geneva-art-stolen/25214518.html|title=Uzbek Dissident Claims Gulnara's Geneva Home Holds National Treasures|last1=Babajanov|first1=Shukhrat|last2=Sindelar|first2=Daisy|date=2013-12-27|publisher=RadioLiberty|access-date=2024-02-25}} He is held in high regard in Uzbekistan and is credited as one of the artists who kept the tradition of Uzbek miniatures alive.{{cite book|chapter=Chapter 12: Art Education in Uzbekistan|last=Khakimov|first=Akbar|title=Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays|editor-last=Joubert|editor-first=Lindy|page=187|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|date=2008-06-19|isbn=9781402063879}}{{cite web|url=https://fondkarimov.uz/en/news/karimov-foundation-publishes-seminal-book-dedicated-to-creative-work-of-prominent-uzbek-artist-chingiz-akhmarov/|title=Karimov Foundation publishes seminal book dedicated to creative work of prominent Uzbek artist Chingiz Akhmarov|date=2022-10-31|publisher=Karimov Foundation|access-date=2024-02-25}}{{cite web|url=https://www.koreapost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=33043|title=Visual and applied arts of the New Uzbekistan are revealed to the world|date=2023-08-14|last=Lee|first=Kyung-sik|publisher=The Korea Post|access-date=2024-02-25}}
Early life
Akhmarov was born in Troitsk, Russian Empire on 18 August 1912, one of 11 children.{{cite web|url=https://mrdi.uz/2019/04/03/chingiz-akhmarovs-life-and-creation/|title=Chingiz Akhmarov’s life and creation|website=mrdi.uz|date=2019-04-03|publisher=National Institute of Fine Art and Design|access-date=2024-02-25}}{{cite web|url=https://arboblar.uz/ru/people/akhmarov-chingiz|script-title=ru:Ахмаров Чингиз|trans-title=Akhmarov Chingiz|website=Arboblar.uz|access-date=2024-02-25|language=ru}} His father was a wealthy, educated merchant.{{cite web|url=https://mytashkent.uz/2012/01/15/chingiz-ahmarov-ryitsar-vostochnoy-damyi/|script-title=ru:Чингиз Ахмаров. «Рыцарь восточной дамы»|trans-title=Chingiz Akhmarov. "Knight of the Eastern Lady"|last=Iskhakova|first=Mastura|date=2012-01-15|website=mytashkent.uz|access-date=2024-02-25|language=uz}} The family had a large library, which they had inherited from Akhmarov's grandfather. Akhmarov enrolled in the Perm School of Fine Arts in 1927, the same year his family moved to Qarshi, Uzbekistan for his father's health. In 1930, his family again relocated, this time to Samarkand, and Akhmarov joined them after graduating in 1931.
Career
In Samarkand, Akhmarov taught drawing and painting at a newly opened art school and wrote for magazines including Mushtum and Mashal. In May 1934, he moved to Tashkent, where he worked as an artist in the editorial office of a newspaper. While there, he received assignments to illustrate novels including Holy Blood by Oybek, Childhood by Gairatiy, Mirage by Abdulla Qahhor and Li Chuv by Sh. Sulaimanov. In the 1930s, Akhmarov painted a series of portraits, two of which - Portrait of a Brother and Athletes - were shown at the Museum of Culture and Art of the Peoples of the East in Moscow. He was rejected from the art school in Leningrad in 1935 so went to Moscow instead, where he entered the Surikov Art Institute. He was a student there during the Battle of Moscow but was not able to join the army due to poor hearing. In 1942, the institute temporarily relocated to Samarkand, where Akhmarov graduated, before returning to its original location in Moscow the following year.{{cite web|title=Monograph on prominent artist Chingiz Akhmarov to be presented|url=http://www.fondforum.uz/en/news/monograph-on-prominent-artist-chingiz-akh/|publisher=Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation|accessdate=4 March 2013}}
In 1943, he was tasked with painting eight frescoes inspired by Alisher Navoi's poems in the newly built Navoi Theater in Tashkent. They were completed in 1947 and the artists who worked on the project, including Akhmarov, received the Stalin prize, 1st class.{{cite web|url=http://madeinuz.com/ru/component/k2/item/275-chingiz|script-title=ru:Сын двух народов. Жизнь как палитра красок.|trans-title=Son of two nations. Life is like a palette of colors.|publisher=Made in UZ|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412183543/http://madeinuz.com/ru/component/k2/item/275-chingiz|archive-date=2021-04-12}} In 1949, he finished his graduate studies and returned full-time to Tashkent, where he taught at an art school. In 1952, he was summoned back to Moscow to create the Friendship of Peoples mosaic in the Kiyevskaya metro station. He was then asked to fully design the interior of the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan, which he worked on between 1954 and 1955.{{cite journal|url=https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F_172379533/4_02.pdf|title="The Spring of Love and Inspiration" exhibition: From the generation of an idea to its implementation|last=Yurievna Filatova|first=Maria|journal=Tatarica: Culture, Personality and Education|doi=10.26907/2311-2042-2020-15-2-118-140|pages=120–121}} From there, he worked on a variety of projects, including at the Hotel Ukraina, Ulugh Beg Museum, Institute of Oriental Studies, Navoi Museum, a sanatorium in Sochi and the Tashkent Metro.
After the death of his wife in the early 1960s, Akhmarov returned to Tashkent and moved into a two-bedroom apartment in Chilanzar. He taught at the Tashkent Art Institute and returned to illustrating books. He created watercolour paintings for Maksud Sheikh-Zadeh's book on Ulugh Beg in 1962. The following year, he was invited to create the costumes and other artwork for the film adaption of the book, The Star of Ulugbek. His paintings are held in a number of private and public collections, including at the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, Museum of Applied Arts, Navoi State Museum of Literature and Kokand Literature Museum.
Awards
- People's Drawer of Uzbekistan (13.11.1964){{cite news |date=15 November 1964 |title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Узбекской ССР О присвоении почетного звания «Народный художник Узбекской ССР» |url=https://press.natlib.uz/ru/editions/73264 |work=Pravda Vostoka |page=6 |issue=266}}
- Stalin Prize 1st class (1948){{Cite news |date=21 April 1948 |title=Г. Архитектуры |trans-title=G. Architecture |work=Pravda |pages=1 |issue=112}}
- State Hamza Prize (1968){{cite news |date=7 November 1968 |title=О присуждении государственных премий Узбекской ССР имени Хамзы в области литературы, искусства и архитектуры |trans-title=On awarding the state awards of the Uzbek SSR named after Hamza in the fields of literature, art and architecture |url=https://press.natlib.uz/ru/editions/86249 |work=Pravda Vostoka |page=3 |language=uz |issue=262}}
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (16 January 1950){{Cite news |date=28 January 1950 |title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями работников промышленности, сельского науки, культуры и искусства Узбекской ССР |url=http://press.natlib.uz/ru/editions/75461 |pages=2 |language=ru |issue=22}}
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (17 August 1982){{Cite news |date=18 August 1982 |title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении художника Ахмарова Ч. Г. орденом Дружбы народов |url=https://press.natlib.uz/ru/editions/89616 |work=Pravda Vostoka |pages=1 |issue=189}}
- Order of the Badge of Honor (6 December 1951){{cite news |date=8 December 1951 |title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями работников литературы и искусства Узбекской ССР |url=https://portal-kultura.ru/upload/iblock/85c/1951.12.08.pdf |work=Sovetskoe iskusstvo |page=1 |language=ru |issue=98}}
- Order of Outstanding Merit (22 August 2001){{Cite news |date=23 August 2001 |title=Указ Президента Республики Узбекистан О награждении посмертно мастеров литературы и искусства, внесших огромный вклад в развитие узбекской национальной культуры |work=Narodnoe slovo |pages=1 |language=ru |issue=165}}
Personal life
Akhmarov died on 13 March 1995 in Tashkent.{{Cite news |date=14 March 1995 |title=Чингиз Ахмаров |work=Pravda Vostoka |pages=4 |language=ru |issue=50}} His wife, painter and academic Shamsroy Khasanova, had died c. 1961. His autobiography, On the Path to the Beautiful, was published in 2007.
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Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Category:People's Artists of Uzbekistan