Artist Jafar Petgar (Iranian artist)

Artist Jafar Petgar 

Jafar Petgar was born in 1920 in Tabriz / Azerbaijan / Iran and died in 2004 in Tehran. 

 of the most influential Iranian old masters. The artist's talent was evident at an early age, when at the age of 17 he painted a portrait of his mother. In 1940, together with his brother Jafar, he opened the first private art school in Tehran. Most of his works are exhibited at the Tehran Museum of Modern Art.

His work, a dozen at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, is diverse, both in style, technique and content. He has depicted his own transformation from realism, to poetry, symbolism and mysticism. He and his brother Asghar started the first private art school in Tehran in 1940. J-Petgar continued his teachings at his studio for 45 years before he retired.