July 23 marks the birthday of Maral Rahmanzade, the first Azerbaijani woman with professional painting education, an artist with outstanding services to the development of the modern national school of painting, and a State Prize laureate. It has been 110 years since the birth of the powerful master of the brush.
According to sea-news.az that M. Rahmanzade was born on July 23, 1916, in the village of Mardakan, Baku.
The prominent artist, who was awarded the “Shohrat” Order and various other orders and medals for her great services to the development of national fine arts, passed away on March 18, 2008.
As a celebrator of the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijani nature, and the oil chronicle, the artist’s work transcended the country’s borders and gained widespread acclaim on a global scale: Famous works: “Azerbaijan is an oil country”, “In our Caspian”, “Self-Portrait”, “My Native Land”, “Sumgayit-Rustavi”, “Daughters of the Land of Fire”, “Three Flowers”, and “My Sisters”. International geography: Her works have been exhibited in more than 50 exhibitions in Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, Belgium, and other countries. Solo exhibitions were organized in Sri Lanka (1958), Cuba (1964), and Iran (1991).
In her work, Maral Rahmanzade affectionately praised the peerless beauty of her native land — the mountains of Nakhchivan, the gardens of Guba, the forests of Lankaran, the village of Khinalug, and the Caspian Sea. Being the daughter of a jeweler, the artist skillfully brought to life the elegance, national costumes, and jewelry items of Azerbaijani women in her paintings.
