Anvar
Gilyazetdinovich Sagitov

born in 1935 • artist
.The future painter was born on 5 January 1935 in the village Hydrar of the Bashkir ASSR. Later the family moved to Ufa. The rugged beauty of the Urals nature, the charm of the old streets of Ufa had a great influence on the fine, sensitive soul of a boy. From the age of seven he began studying in the art Studio at the House of culture, led by the oldest artist of the city Gennady farmers. Classes at the Studio gave a lot of young artist
In 1953, the Council by G. V. Ogorodnikova, Anwar Sagitov received in the Kazan art school. In 1955, the third-year student of the Kazan school Sagitov was drafted into the army. For four years he served in the Navy: visited the far East, the Baltic sea, the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Northern sea route. The artist will forever love the endless expanse of water. This love he has transferred to his paintings, an image of the vastness of the Volga, the Kama, waters of the Bosphorus. After his discharge in 1959, Anvar Sadykov continued her studies at the Kazan art school, where classes with upperclassmen were great masters, artists, teachers: Viktor Ivanovich Kotelkin, Emmanuel G. Lipkind, semen Aronovich Rotnitsky.

After graduating from College in 1962, Sagitov was sent to Ufa, in the school of arts. He quickly entered the creative life of artists of Bashkortostan, wrote a lot, since 1962, has participated in national exhibitions and later, in regional and nationwide. For 20 years, until 1982, he taught painting, drawing and composition.

In 1980, on the recommendation of the leading artists of BASSR Akhmad Lutfullin and Boris Domashnikov, Anwar Sagitov was admitted to the Union of artists of the USSR.

Since 1983 A. G. Sagitov lives and works in Kazan. Everything he writes is clear, accessible and close to any viewer. His art went beyond Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Russia – paintings by A. G. Sagitova are kept in the Bashkir state art Museum named after Mikhail Nesterov in Ufa, national Museum of fine arts of Tatarstan in Kazan, the National cultural center "Kazan", Museum of the village of Lenino-Kokushkino Pestrechinsky district of Tatarstan, "Bazin-Museum" in Istanbul, as well as in many galleries and private collections in Europe, Asia and America.
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