Hüseyin Tahirzade Behzat (;1889–1962), or Hossein Taherzadeh Behzad Tabrizi, was an Iranian miniaturist

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, educator, and carpet designer. He is considered one of the most important miniature artists of Iran, and has produced approximately 400 articles and artworks. In the present day his miniatures and carpet designs receive a great amount of attention.

Biography

Tahirzade Behzat was born in 1889 in

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, Persia. He received his training in painting at academies in

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(now

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) and Tbilisi (now

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), after which he returned to Iran. He is credited with the development of an

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''heroic national style'' to decorate the palaces of

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in collaboration with a team that consisted of craftsmen and architects. He created and/or directed the creation of these large scale wall murals which also lends credit to him as developing ''Pahlavi modernity''. A section of the Negarestan Garden Palace was turned into a museum under the supervision of Behzat in 1930. Behzat taught miniature painting and calligraphy at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul from 1947. Among his students at the academy were

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and others. He was honored with the nickname ''Müzeyyenü'l Sultan.'' In 2015 an exhibition in

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displayed the works of Behzat and the tools that he used in his work.

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* * 1962 deaths 1889 births Iranian academics Miniature painting {{Iran-artist-stub Tbilisi State Academy of Arts alumni Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University alumni