Shahin Charmi (born September 17, 1953) is an Iranian-born German

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, muralist, and painter.

Biography

Shahin Charmi was born on September 17, 1953, in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. He studied at the

Muthesius Academy of Art Muthesius Academy of Art (German: ''Muthesius Kunsthochschule'') is an art school and is located in the city of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The school was named for architect Hermann Muthesius. The school was founded in 1907 as an Art ...

Kiel, Germany Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland pe ...

(from 1980 until 1985), under Harald Duwe and Peter Nagel. Charmi is married to Austrian artist Patricia Bolf-Charmi. In November 1989, Charmi painted the mural titled, (English: Revolution and War), located at the Polecat Bunker (German: Iltisbunker Zeichnet) in the Gaardner district of Kiel. The mural is a narrative of the historical events from November 1918 and the Kiel sailor uprising, to

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, and the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. In 1990, Charmi was awarded the Golden Plotter Award, for computer art by the city of

Gladbeck Gladbeck () is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gladbeck is quite a young town, first recognised 21 July 1919 when it was given town rights. The town established itself around five farming villages, Br ...

in Germany. In 2011, Charmi worked on stage design for ''Rustam and Esfadyar'', for the

Fajr Theater Festival Fajr International Theater Festival (est. 1983) occurs annually in Iran, featuring local and international theatrical works and performers. Among the participants: el-Warsha (Egypt) and Teatro Potlatch (Italy). Some of the events take place in the ...

at the City Theater of Tehran and

Vahdat Hall The Vahdat Hall ( fa, تالار وحدت – ''Tālār e Vahdat'' means "Unity Hall"), formerly the Roudaki Hall ( fa, تالار رودکی – ''Tālār-e Rudaki''), is a performing arts complex in Tehran, Iran. History Around the 1950s and 1 ...

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