Fuad Abdurahmanov

In Baku, the family of the future sculptor rented a two-room apartment in Icheri Sheher, on Mammadyarov street.

In 1938, Fuad Abdurahmanov began to work on Fuzûlî’s statue opening a pantheon of eminent Azerbaijani poets and writers established on Nizami Museum’s loggia in Baku.

A contest for the best pictorial portrait and monument of Nizami Ganjavi declared in connection with 800th anniversary had a great importance at the end of the 1930s.

Creative interests of the sculptor were multi-sided, which can be seen in his later works—images of Huseynbala Aliyev, Khidir Mustafayev (heroes of the USSR, poet Samad Vurgun, composers Uzeyir Hajibeyov and Asaf Zeynally, historical portraits of Koroghlu, Javanshir, Babek).

Fuad Abdurahmanov is the author of a lot of monuments decorating streets and squares of Baku-Nizami—Samed Vurghun, Mehdi Huseynzade, “To emancipated woman", and the gravestone of General Hazi Aslanov.

After Fuad Abdurahmanov were named streets in Baku and Shaki, memorial plates were put up on buildings where the sculptor lived.

Plaque on building where Azerbaijani sculptor Fuad Abdurahmanov lived in Baku, Azerbaijan