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 - November 3, 2007, Baku) – prominent Azerbaijan

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i artist

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, People's Artist

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 of the Azerbaijan SSR (1967).

Biography

In 1939, Boyukagha Mirzazade graduated from Baku technical school of arts

The arts

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, where Azim Azimzade

Azim Azimzade

Azim Aslan Ogly Azimzade was a renowned Azerbaijani painter and cartoonist.Azim Azimzade was born on April 30, 1880 in Novkhani, a village near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. His father Aslan was a stonecutter and farmer.An art school is named after Azimzade and a museum is dedicated to his...

 was one of his teachers. In 1940, Mirzazade entered Moscow Institute of Fine Arts

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

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, but he couldn’t end his education because of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War

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. Further, Boyukagha Mirzazade studied at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts

Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts

Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts was founded in 1923 on the basis of the Baku Theatrical College. It is Azerbaijan's main state-funded institution of higher education in performing arts.-Background:...

. After the graduation he worked at technical school of arts as a teacher and an artist. Mirzazade was the head of a department at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, and the professor of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts.

Works of the artist are kept and exhibited in Azerbaijan State Museum of Art

Azerbaijan State Museum of Art

Rustam Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art is the biggest art museum of Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1936 in Baku and in 1943 was named after Rustam Mustafayev, a prominent Azeri scenic designer and theater artist. The museum consists of two buildings standing next to each other...

, Nizami Ganjavi National Museum of Azerbaijani Literature

Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature

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 and Baku Museum of Modern Art

Baku Museum of Modern Art

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. Boyukagha Mirzazade acquired a reputation as an excellent theatrical artist and he is the author of stage designs for 20 spectacles. Mirzazade was the laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan Republic

Azerbaijan

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. The works of the artist were repeatedly exhibited in the USSR

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and in other countries.