Akif Asgarov

Akif Izzatulla oghlu Asgarov (Azerbaijani: Akif İzzətulla oğlu Əsgərov; 1 May 1940 – 18 November 2023) was an Azerbaijani sculptor and a People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2018).

From 1958 to 1963, he studied at the Azim Azimzade Art School, and from 1963 to 1969 at the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

The sculptor's works are kept in Volgograd Art Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, museums and private collections in France, Germany, USA, Turkey, England.

On 10 February 2016, Akif Asgarov was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

[2] In 1997, a personal exhibition of Akif Asgarov was held in Baku.