Parviz Habibpour Information

Parviz (Morteza) Habibpour (born in 1297) Iranian contemporary painter Childhood He was born in a working class family in Anzali Port and by completing the primary school in 1948 due to the poverty of the family left the school and after a while started to work to secure a part of family’s subsistence. In 1954 he moved to Tehran with his family Educations Within the years of 1956 to 1965 in Tehran along with working in various places, he started to learn painting in the workshop of master Houshang Peyman and simultaneously followed his formal education and completed the second course of education in literary branch. Then he successfully participated in the entrance examination of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University. But despite of his success in entering examination he was not accepted due to his age which was beyond the defined limitation. Therefore, he left Iran for Soviet Russia and learnt Russian and English Languages. Private Life By coming back to Iran in 1968 he was arrested on suspicion of espionage and after passing the term of inmate he established a painting school in Tehran. In 1976 he married with a girl who is children psychologist and specialist in teaching painting to children. The fruit of this marriage is a girl and a boy that both of them are graphic artist. Jobs • From 1991 to 1995 he taught in public Plastic Art School (boys and girls) • From 1974 to the present time teaching in his own painting school • From 1977 to 1980 he collaborated with Azad University in the field of translation of scientific essays and compiling a self-teaching book for learning Russian Language Positions • Honorary member of Iran painting Artist Associations • Honorary member of the Institute for the Development of Plastic Arts Exhibition • He has held 45 individual and collective exhibitions in Tehran and other provinces within the years of 1995 to 2007 and also he has some individual exhibition in foreign countries Compilation and Translation • The Artistic proportion of Man’s Body • Translation the book of Perspective, Theoretical and Practical Principles by Veladimirisky Tehran, Gutenberg, 1983 • Artistic Anatomy of Man’s body • Completing the book of Technology of Designing and Painting. Tehran: Donya Publication, 1985