Ahad Hosseini

Sayyid Ahad Hosseini (Azerbaijani: ; Persian ; born 14 August 1944 in Tabriz) is an Iranian Azerbaijani sculptor and painter. He is sometimes regarded as a patriotic figure and national symbol of Iran. He then briefly worked in Parviz Tanavoli's atelier in Tehran.

In 1972, he studied art in Italy as a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) in Florence. He went on to present the sculptures to the Azerbaijan Museum,

Between 1980 and 1982, Hosseini taught sculpture in Tabriz and edited a book entitled "What is Art?". He then lived in Turkey and made some sculptures for Istanbul University. His work "Thinking Man" is in the Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences.

Hosseini studied and taught at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (School of Decorative Arts) in Paris from 1984 to 1990. Some of Hosseini's sculptures, which were previously kept in the Azerbaijani Museum, are now displayed there. The statues depict important Constitutional Revolution figures such as Zainab Pasha, Ali Khataian, Aliasghar Laliabadi, Aliakbar Dehkhoda, and Sattar Khan.

Misery Around the World is a series of 12 sculptures, with each sculpture representing a form of human misery. The sculptures are Ignorance, War, Chains of Misery, The Miserable, Hunger, Political Prisoner, A Crystal Ball, Population Growth, Racial Discrimination, 5 Monsters of Death, Anxiety, and Autumn of Life.