Boyukagha Mirzazade

Boyukagha Mirzazade

Boyukagha Mirzazade
Birth name	Boyukagha Meshadi oglu Mirzazade
Born	February 21, 1921 Baku, Azerbaijan
Died	November 3, 2007 Baku, Azerbaijan
Nationality
Field	Arts

Boyukagha Meshadi oglu Mirzazade (Azerbaijani: Böyükağa Məşədi oğlu Mirzəzadə, February 21, 1921, Baku - November 3, 2007, Baku) – prominent Azerbaijani artist, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1967).

Biography

In 1939, Boyukagha Mirzazade graduated from Baku technical school of arts, where Azim Azimzade was one of his teachers. In 1940, Mirzazade entered Moscow Institute of Fine Arts, but he couldn’t end his education because of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Further, Boyukagha Mirzazade studied at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. After the graduation he worked at technical school of arts as a teacher and an artist. Mirzazade was the head of a department at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, and the professor of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts.

Works of the artist are kept and exhibited in Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Nizami Ganjavi National Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Baku Museum of Modern Art. Boyukagha Mirzazade acquired a reputation as an excellent theatrical artist and he is the author of stage designs for 20 spectacles. Mirzazade was the laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan Republic. The works of the artist were repeatedly exhibited in the USSR and in other countries.

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