Kazim Kazimzadeh
Birth date:
10 August 1913
Death date:
04 October 1992
Kazim Kazimzadeh was born in Baku.
He studied at the Azerbaijan Art College (1936) and the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin (1960).
He began his career as a teacher. After graduating from the Pedagogical College, he worked as a teacher in the Shabran region for a while and as the director of a village school. He was mainly engaged in book illustrations and easel graphics. He collaborated with the magazine "Kirpi". He provided costume sketches for performances and films. Since 1942, he has been the director of the Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, and since 1954, he has been a key member of the Soviet Committee of the International Council of Museums. He provided the first artistic design for the house-museums of Samad Vurgun and Uzeyir Hajibeyov in Baku, the Samad Vurgun Poetry House in Gazakh, and the Lankaran Museum of History and Local Lore.
Honored Artist (1943), People's Artist (1964), laureate of the USSR (1950) and Azerbaijan (1986) State Prizes, Kazim Kazimzadeh died in 1992 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.
