1923-1992

Azerbaijani artist, one of the founders of the modern movement in Azerbaijani painting. Born January 19, 1923, in Baku. From 1941 to 1949, he received his first painting education at the Baku Art School. From 1949 to 1954, he lived in Leningrad and worked as an employee at the State Hermitage Museum. Returning to Azerbaijan (Buzovna village) from Leningrad in 1954, he spent 10 years experimenting with materials unconventional for fine art: metal, stone, sand, bitumen, resin, and cement. After 10 years in Buzovna, Mirjavadov returned to Baku in 1966. Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1988). The works are kept in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan State Art Gallery, the Moscow Museum of the Peoples of the East, as well as in many private galleries and collections.