Abdul Qadir Al Rassam

Visual Artist

1882 – 1952

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Who was Abdul Qadir Al Rassam?

Abdul Qadir Al Rassam,عبد القادر الرسام, 1952 - 1882, was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He was the first well-known painter in modern Iraq and the leader of realism school in Iraq. He studied military science and art at the Military College, Istanbul, Turkey, from 1904. He studied art and painting in the European traditional style and became a landscape painter, he painted many landscapes of Iraq in the realism style, using shading and composition to suggest time periods. He was a major figure among the first generation of modern Iraqi artists and was a member of the Art Friends Society. A collection of his work is hung in The Pioneers Museum, Baghdad. A prolific painter of oils, the majority of his works are now in private hands.

, watercolor on paper, 350 × 270 mm. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

River Scene on the Banks of the Tigris, oil on canvas, 631 × 982 mm. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

Portrait of Mohamed Darouich al Allousi, oil on canvas, 892 × 595 mm. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

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Born
1882
Lived in
  • Baghdad
Died
1952

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on July 23, 2013

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