HOSEIN BEHZAD

NAME: HOSEIN BEHZAD
DATE OF BIRTH: 1894
DEATH: 1968
OCCUPATION: MINIATURIZATION
His father was a pen-maker and painter. He entered at the age of seven to his father's workshop, and after a while went to a workshop MOLA ALI pen maker. And after some years of training, made so great miniatures that customers just bought his work. At the age of eighteen, opened a workshop and imitated the works of the great masters. After Mr. KAMALODIN BEHZAD HARATI, he is the greatest master of miniature in Iran.
During the emergence of artists like HOSEIN BEHZAD, HADI TAJVIDI, MOHAMMAD ALI ZAVIYEH and others, the second period of QAJAR School (1250 to 1313) was finalized. And the only kind which is remained and remained in action, was the academic school of KAMALOL MOLK and his students and followers. Traditional painting, was limited to making pen, mirror frames and oil frame, which had no great master among the manufacturers.
Return of a generation of artists with traditional arts background, with painting style of the tenth and eleventh centuries of Iran, was the only interest for reconstruction of an outdated tradition. These artists were losing their jobs, and were not interested in Western painting. This was primarily due to the economic field and was improved with entry of dealers, diplomats, businessmen and American and European explorers. These buyers were expanding their look with tempting financial proposals and talented young artists, instead of continuing to hopeless pen art, paid attention to the current market. And with remarkable skill, started to imitate the samples of the SAFAVID era. Samples of the late HOSEIN BEHZAD which were built according to the methods of Bukhara, Herat, Qazvin and Isfahan schools, are in great numbers and many museums and collectors, have them as the original samples.
Persian painting, under normal conditions, could not accept to have so clear and precise imitation and return of the four hundreds year leap, and provides an acceptable position for it. Iranian painting from the seventh and eighth centuries improved in correction and progress, innovation and creativity and did not desire to do the copy of the distant past. But the generation who began to work with HOSEIN BEHZAD, did not have fear to do so. This generation was forced to sign and put date on their arts, later. This was due to the increasing pressure, provided for the difference. The difference was hiding in the tribal memory of our people. Paintings of beautiful and colorful garden paradise from the past centuries.