1928 - 2021

Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian painter, theater artist, teacher, professor of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997-2021). Tahir Salakhov was born on November 29, 1928 in Baku. In 1950, he graduated from the Azim Azimzade Art College in Baku, and in 1957 from the V. I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (workshop of P. D. Pokarzhevsky), majoring in painting. From 1963 to 1974, he taught at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts named after M. A. Aliyev (first associate professor, since 1973 — professor), and since 1975 — at the Moscow Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. One of the most famous Soviet artists of the "thaw" period and one of the founders and leaders of the "surovy" style in painting. The artist's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the National Museum of Art of Azerbaijan (Baku) and others.