Bahruz Kangarli was an Azerbaijani painter born in 1892 in Nakhchivan who could not attend secondary school due to hearing loss as a child. In 1910, he went to Tiflis and studied at the Tiflis School of Arts, where he painted portraits of his teachers. Kangarli's satirical works were published in Russian magazines before the revolution. After graduating in 1916, he returned to Nakhchivan and is known for his paintings of people and motifs from the region.
3. Bahruz Kangarli was born on January 22,
1892 in Nakhchivan. He was hard of
hearing due to an illness as a child,
which is why he could not attend a
comprehensive secondary school and
was instead homeschooled.
4. In 1910, he went to Tiflis with the
support ofJalil Mammadguluzadeh and
entered the Tiflis School of Arts under
the Society of Encouragement of Fine
Arts, where Otto Schmerling and
Yegishe Tadevosyan taught at that
time. He painted portraits of
Schmerling and his colleague Lado
Gudiashvili while he studied there.
5.
Various satirical magazines published
in Russia in the prerevolutionary
period, especially Molla
Nasraddinmagazine of Baku published
Kangarli's works, next to caricatures
by Schmerling and satirical paintings
of Azim Azimzade, whom Kangarli
was inspired by. He returned to
Nakhchivan after graduating from the
School of Arts in 1916.