Karakhan Nikolai Georgievich. Born in the village of Nakhchivanik, Nagorno-Karabakh. Soviet painter, National Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1960). Member of the Tashkent branch of the AHRR (1926-1929). A talented master of the Uzbek painting school founded by Alexander Volkov. In 1917 Karakhan was selected to study at the atelier of I. С. Kazakov. He studied at the Turkestan Regional Art School in Tashkent with Alexei Isupov and Sergei Yudin (1919-1921). From 1920 to 1924 Karakhan served in the Red Army as a propaganda artist. He created murals, wall posters... далее

Karakhan Nikolai Georgievich. Born in the village of Nakhchivanik, Nagorno-Karabakh. Soviet painter, National Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1960). Member of the Tashkent branch of the AHRR (1926-1929). A talented master of the Uzbek painting school founded by Alexander Volkov. In 1917 Karakhan was selected to study at the atelier of I. С. Kazakov. He studied at the Turkestan Regional Art School in Tashkent with Alexei Isupov and Sergei Yudin (1919-1921). From 1920 to 1924 Karakhan served in the Red Army as a propaganda artist. He created murals, wall posters and decorations for buildings in the army and in rural settlements, as well as ornaments for the Red Army theatre. During these same years, Karahan began travelling the land of his region in search of a daily rapprochement with the nature of his native land. Later, returning to his homeland, he worked as a teacher at the Turkmen Pedagogical Technical School (1925 - 1934), then taught a course of painting at the Tashkent Art School (1934 - 1941). He participated in exhibitions since 1928. In 1939 Nikolai Karakhan takes part in the decoration of frescoes of the USSR pavilion at the World Exhibition in New York, ‘The World of Tomorrow’, which was visited by about 44 million people. During the Second World War, together with members of the Artists Union of Uzbekistan, Karakhan plays an important role in patriotic agitation in the streets of Tashkent. He takes part in the organisation of industrial and agricultural exhibitions. During these years he creates a whole series of works on the theme ‘Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War’. Personal exhibitions were held in Tashkent (1960, 1965, 1981). Nikolai Karakhan's works are exibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Savitsky Art Museum and kept in other regional museums' collections, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. скрыть