About Javad Hamidi
Lived 1918 – 2002 (aged 83–84). Javad Hamidi was an Iranian painter.
Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002) was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer of modern art in Iran.
Biography
Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran. Hamidi studied in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran), and graduated in 1946; and at Beaux-Arts de Paris. His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris. He continued his studies under French painter André Lhote. Hamidi taught painting at Tehran University for almost 40 years, as well as at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities.
In 2002, he was killed by a speeding motorcyclist in Tehran.
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Iranian artist (1918-2002)
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Javad Hamidi was born in 1918.
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Javad Hamidi died in 2002.
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Javad Hamidi was a painter.
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