Orient – days in Puchheim

Community College offers a program- Until 5 February

by Günter Schäftlein (KB) FFB / 31.01.2006

Puchheim – The puchheimer vhs Orient days receives a substantial pictorial accompaniment until the 5th of February, presenting the “Persian miniature painting in a new representation,” by Khossrow Ghassemi Dehnavi, in ​​the citizen meeting hall, lecture hall E7. The naturalistic precision and bright colors are impressive in these slightly large formats than initially expected, even in their liveliness. It is Persian-traditional art, in which one wishes that they would illustrate oriental stories in old, German storybooks. G. Dehnavi, who was born in Iran, in 1964, has been living in Munich since 1995, and has also been living in Olching since 1999. He started studying classical miniature painting in 1983 in Isfahan, Iran. In 2000, he began his further training as a church painter in Munich, which he completed in 2002 with his journeyman’s examination in front of the Chamber of Crafts in the state capital. Since September 2004, he attended the master school for church painting there. Since 2001, participations in community, as well as solo exhibitions took place in the Munich area. Occasionally, he mixes the high-quality, traditional Persian style of painting with quite European images and themes.

Persian- traditional art- by Khossrow G. Dehnavi, to be seen in the vhs- exhibition

Literary brought to canvas

Persian painting in the town house

Gröbenzell (SW) – “Persian Paintings – Images from Mythology” is the name of an exhibition by Khossrow G. Dehnavi, which will be on display from Saturday, June 4 through Sunday June 19, in the gallery in Bürgerhaus. The paintings will be on display Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4pm to 6pm, Fridays from 10am to 12pm and 4pm to 6pm, on Saturdays from 3pm to 6pm, and on Sundays from 10am to 12pm and 3pm to 6pm.

The artist was born in Iran and has been living in Germany since 1995. Even as a child, he was a native of the arts, the patterns of Persian carpets with their colorful arabesques and ornaments, the colorful birds, the flowers and the gardens of paradise had magically attracted him and also the indescribably beautiful blue-green and golden tiles of the mosques. Enthusiastically, Khossrow G. Dehnavi painted, and paints what he sees. Later, his father taught him the technique of oil and watercolor painting. In 1983 he began studying classical miniature painting in Isfahan. This has a very exquisite value in the art history of the East and the West. It is the art of small treasures. In this tradition, the exhibited works so literary, by adopting the technique of Persian miniature painting, that is, the variety of colors and the naturalistic painting style.

Ghassemi paints in the style of the old tradition. He transforms the thematic world of the small book format and enlarges it on the

2002 he completed his journeyman’s apprenticeship with the HWK Munich and since September 2004 he has been attending the Meisterschule für Kirchenmaler. Fürstenfeldbruck Tagblatt / Newspaper / 2004

Enlarged Miniatures

The Iranian painter Khossrow G. Dehnavi, who enlarges miniatures, is an Iranian painter who has been painting since he was 17. Khossrow G. Dehnavi is a church painter who is about to become a master of his craft. His large format paintings are available for view in the gallery of Ka20 in the Kapuzinerstraße in Munich, until the 30th of November. Khossrow G. Dehnavi paints Persian miniatures in a big format, with acrylic on canvas, little shades, and pure colors. In this way, Ghassemi tries to make available to the public the miniatures originally used in Persia exclusively for book illustration. This is “my way of compromising with the European art,” says Ghassemi. The Picture shown here is a war scene, which is based on the history of the Orient.

The Iranian painter Khossrow G. Dehnavi  mixes the colors. His pictures can be seen until the 30th of November in the gallery Ka20 in the Kapuzinerstraße. Photo: Scheider

Southgerman newspaper . Page R4 / Fürstenfeldbrucker SZ No. 240 19.10.2003

Khossrow Ghassemi Dehnavi tells stories through his paintings.

Enchanting, strange world

Pictures of Persian mythology in the Ebersberg town hall

FROM SABINE HEINE

Ebersberg- These are stories that his grandfather told him. Ancient, ever-present stories from Persian mythology. Khossrow G. Dehnavi painted them, only in the style of the Persian miniature painting. Since yesterday these large-format, framed pictures of the exiled Iranian are up for display at the Ebersberg Rathausgalerie. His works give a fascinating insight into his homeland. Eleven years ago, G. Dehnavi came to Germany. The trained miniature painter has dedicated himself to church painting, and today he has his own company in Olching as a master. This 42-year-old painter is still after the tradition of miniature painting, but so to speak mixing the European art in large formats, just as colorful and seemingly kept simple as the famous models of Persian painting. At first glance, these works seem naïve. The sketched figures are filled with radiant colors as in the Eastern European icon painting, every detail has a meaning. Of course, this does not immediately unfold for us Europeans.

But the artist tells the story that fits the picture on small text panels. Like this one, which belongs to the picture above: A ship passenger suffers from the journey, moans and annoys the whole crew. The captain orders the man to hang headfirst into the water for a while. After he had been moved out of the water, the man was never unhappy again.

The exhibition in the Ebersberg Rathausgalerie can be seen until Friday, June 16th, at the usual opening hours, from Mondays to Thursdays from 8am to 5pm, and Fridays from 8am to 12pm.miniature painting. Since yesterday these large-format, framed pictures of the exiled Iranian are up for display at the Ebersberg Rathausgalerie. His works give a fascinating insight into his homeland. Eleven years ago, G. Dehnavi came to Germany. The trained miniature painter has dedicated himself to church painting, and today he has his own company in Olching as a master. This 42-year-old painter is still after the tradition of miniature painting, but so to speak mixing the European art in large formats, just as colorful and seemingly kept simple as the famous models of Persian painting. At first glance, these works seem naïve. The sketched figures are filled with radiant colors as in the Eastern European icon painting, every detail has a meaning. Of course, this does not immediately unfold for us Europeans.

But the artist tells the story that fits the picture on small text panels. Like this one, which belongs to the picture above: A ship passenger suffers from the journey, moans and annoys the whole crew. The captain orders the man to hang headfirst into the water for a while. After he had been moved out of the water, the man was never unhappy again.

The exhibition in the Ebersberg Rathausgalerie can be seen until Friday, June 16th, at the usual opening hours, from Mondays to Thursdays from 8am to 5pm, and Fridays from 8am to 12pm.

From Persian Mythology

An Olching artist from Iran paints colorful miniatures in a large format.

Khossrow G. Dehnavi has been living in Germany since 1995. In 2000, he began his full-time training as a church painter, and completed it in July 2005 at the Munich Master School.

Currently, the stories told by him in paintings, about Persian heroes, princesses, sailors, warriors, animals, and cities can be found in Stuttgart-Degerloch, at the local city library until January 28th. In an interview with Khossrow G. Dehnavi, he mentioned that ever since he was a child, he had been fascinated by the native art of painting, often found in carpet patterns: the colorful arabesques and ornaments, woven, colorful birds, flowers and paradise gardens. He is equally enthusiastic today about the blue-green and golden tiles in the mosques. His early childish naive inclination to paint and draw was decisively supported by his father, who later introduced him to the technique of oil and watercolor painting. In 1983, Khossrow G. Dehnavi began studying classical miniature painting in Isfahan, which in the Orient is considered to be of particular importance as the art of small treasures, comparable to the European esteem for the monuments of the oldest Christian monastic manuscripts. In 1991, the artist had his first joint exhibition in Tehran associated with an art prize, but still involved himself with still lifes in oil: classical Persian miniature painting, which on the other hand, took place in watercolor or gouache. His first German appearance was in 2001, in Aichach, which was a joint exhibition. In 2002, he had his first solo exhibition in Gröbenzell. In the years 2003-2004 there were further single and collective exhibitions in Munich, Ehekirchen, Olching (imitated by the Förderverein Kultur) and as already mentioned above, until the end of the year in Stuttgart-Degerloch.

Also in acrylic

In addition to the classic technique, he also paints in acrylic on canvas. According to him, his chosen proportional enlargements of motifs and ornamentation, “find their way out of the books for viewing on the walls of an exhibition”. Khossrow G. Dehnavi will courageously take the step into the independence of a hard German working reality, as a restorer, after graduating the master school for church painting this year.

By Günter Schäflein, (KB) Wochenzeitung / Fürstenfeldbruck. 2006