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Hüseyin Tahirzade Behzat ( Persian: حسین طاهرزاده بهزاد;1889–1962), or Hossein Taherzadeh Behzad Tabrizi, was an Iranian miniaturist painter, calligrapher, educator, [1] and carpet designer. [2] 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. [3]
Tahirzade Behzat was born in 1889 in Tabriz, Persia. [4] He received his training in painting at academies in Istanbul (now Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) and Tbilisi (now Tbilisi State Academy of Arts), [2] after which he returned to Iran. [5]
He is credited with the development of an Iranian heroic national style [6] to decorate the palaces of Reza Shah 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. [7] A section of the Negarestan Garden Palace was turned into a museum under the supervision of Behzat in 1930. [8]
Behzat taught miniature painting and calligraphy at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul [3] from 1947. Among his students at the academy were Neşe Aybey and others. [1] [5] He was honored with the nickname Müzeyyenü'l Sultan. [3] In 2015 an exhibition in Tehran displayed the works of Behzat and the tools that he used in his work. [3]