Bahruz Kengerli – as a personality and a literary character

Abstract

The article is devoted to the first professional artist, who discovered new traces in the fine arts of Azerbaijan, Bahruz Kangarly in scientific and fiction literature. “Mountains rising in the distance” by Tofig Mahmud (1989) is the first and only biographical novel dedicated to the life and work of the artist. At a time when the archives were opened and historical truths were revealed, Tofig Mahmud presented an artistic image of Bahruz Kangarly, not far from reality, referring to documents, memoirs, articles and scientific works, articles about the Armenian aggression. A catalog of all the works drawn by the artist in the book-album “The Fate of Bahruz Kangarly” (2017) authored by the honored worker of arts, Ph.D. in art history Ziyadkhan Aliyev and the teacher of the Nakhchivan Pedagogical Institute Nizami Aliyev was compiled on the basis of scientific research, documents and memoirs. The album, created thanks to great efforts and searches, was able to convey to the people detailed information about the artist, highlighting the life of Bahruz bey Kangarly with documents, drawings and visual evidence.