Hossein Taherzadeh Behzad

Hossein Taherzadeh Behzad (Persian: حسین طاهرزاده بهزاد; 1889–1962) was an Iranian miniaturist painter, calligrapher, educator,^[1] and carpet designer.^[2] He is considered one of the most important miniature artists of Iran, and has produced approximately 400 articles and artworks. In the present day his miniatures and carpet designs receive a great amount of attention.^[3]

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Tahirzade Behzad was born in 1889 in Tabriz, Qajar Iran.^[4] He received his training in painting at academies in Istanbul (now Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) and Tbilisi (now Tbilisi State Academy of Arts),^[2] after which he returned to Iran.^[5]

He is credited with the development of an Iranian heroic national style^[6] to decorate the palaces of Reza Shah in collaboration with a team that consisted of craftsmen and architects. He created and/or directed the creation of these large scale wall murals which also lends credit to him as developing Pahlavi modernity.^[7] A section of the Negarestan Garden Palace was turned into a museum under the supervision of Behzad in 1930.^[8]

Behzad taught miniature painting and calligraphy at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul^[3] from 1947. Among his students at the academy were Neşe Aybey and others.^[1]^[5] He was honored with the nickname Müzeyyenü'l Sultan.^[3] In 2015 an exhibition in Tehran displayed the works of Behzad and the tools that he used in his work.^[3]

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