Today is the remembrance day of the people's artist Sattar Bahlulzade

Today marks 51 years since the death of people's artist Sattar Bahlulzade.

As BAKU.WS reminds us, Sattar Bahlulzade was born on December 15, 1909, in the village of Amirjan near Baku. Sattar's love for drawing appeared in early childhood. After his father gave him colored pencils, Sattar drew everything he saw around him - the Novruz holiday with the "Kes-kesa" performance, children jumping over bonfires, and more.

During his school years, Sattar loved to read poems by Nizami Ganjavi, Vagif, Khagani Shirvani, but he was most inspired by Fuzuli's poetry and the characters from his work "Leyli and Majnun." He drew them on the covers of his notebooks and books. Teachers liked the young artist's work. "You, Sattar, have only one path - to become an artist," they said.

Driven by a great desire to create, in 1927 Sattar Bahlulzade entered the Azerbaijan Art Technical School, where he received his initial professional art education. After graduating from the technical school in 1931, Sattar began working with the famous artist Azim Azimzade at the "Communist" newspaper. He worked there for two years.

In 1933, he enrolled in the V.I. Surikov Moscow Art Institute in the graphics department. During summer practice in Crimea, some of Sattar's sketches were noticed by Russian artist Marc Chagall, who suggested that he transfer to the painting department. That's what he did.

People's Artist S. Bahlulzade is considered one of the most prominent landscape painters in Azerbaijani fine art. In paintings such as "Native Valleys," "Ducklings in the Pond," "Upper Dashalti," "Jidir Duzu," "Mountains in Clouds," "Green Carpet," he celebrated the beauty of our country's wonderful corners.

Landscapes dedicated to the nature of Absheron occupy a special place in his work. At exhibitions held in 1946-1947, he displayed his "Absheron studies" - paintings "Buzovna Oil Fields," "Amirjan," and others. On historical themes, S. Bahlulzade created a series of works "Heroic Sons of the Azerbaijani People," paintings "Babek's Uprising," "Fatali Khan," "Calligrapher Mir Ali."

Landscapes dedicated to the Caspian Sea and oil rigs occupy a special place in the artist's work ("Caspian Beauty," "Evening over the Caspian," etc.). He spent whole days at sea, with oil workers on boats, platforms, piers, and rigs. Despite the similar color scheme of these works, the artist was able to masterfully convey the contradictory character of the Caspian.

The artist's personal exhibitions were held in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Norway, Bulgaria, Germany, Iraq, Cuba, Canada, Belgium, France, and Japan. Currently, works by the outstanding Azerbaijani artist are kept in galleries and museums of various countries.

Honored Art Worker, laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan, People's Artist Sattar Bahlulzade died on October 14, 1974, in Moscow. He was buried in his native village of Amirjan.