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Hossein Ghollar Aghasi
Painter
Iran
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Iranian Coffee Shop Painter
Born in Tehran, 1902
He was the son of master “AliReza Ghollar-Aghasi” (Naghash-Bashi), a famous and experienced designer of tile-work patterns.
He had acquired the rudiments of traditional painting in his father’s workshop, when he was a child. He resolutely devoted his efforts to the development of “Coffee Shop Painting", creating magnificent canvas works and mural frescoes based on religious traditions and national epics after his father’s death.
He was enraptured with vivid colors, and he sought every pretext to reproduce the lively tones found in ancient Iranian illuminations and tile-works in his paintings.
Really, he was a decorative painter and a painter of the “School of Imagination”. During the forty years or so he painted; he trained a big number of students and put all his talent and faith at the service of developing “Coffee Shop Painting". He continued the whole life and deceased in poor and unknown in 1966.
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