Noori Al-Rawi

Place: Rawa

Born: 1925

Death: 2014

Biography:

Nouri al-Rawi was an Iraqi painter; a pioneer of Iraqi art who played an important role in shaping the Iraqi modern art movement through his roles as a practising artist, author, television presenter, art administrator and art critic. He was born in 1925 in Rawa, Al Anbar, Iraq, in the fertile, agricultural lands between the Euphrates River and the mountains and near the Babylonian city of Anah. He received a formal art education first at Baghdad University, and later at the Institute of Fine Arts, graduating in 1959. He subsequently received a scholarship to study print editing and television program production in Belgrade (1962). He was known for his paintings, sculptures, art criticism, art history, art administration and authorship. He died in 2014 in Baghdad, Iraq.