My father and my mother is a native of the Nikolaev area of the Ulyanovsk
region. Father Vakhit Karimov was born in the village Circle mother Hadice
Alibekova was born in the village of Nikulino village was nearby,
located from each other at a distance of 2 km...
I was born and raised in the city of Sochi is 30 km from Tashkent. At home we
spoke with grandmother and mother in the Tatar language on the street only
Uzbek. To school it was my second native language.
- Since the 4th grade, I began attending evening art classes at school,
which was led by a wonderful artist, a graduate of Tashkent
art College named after p. P. Benkov Villager....
In 1967, I entered the Tashkent art school named.
After p. p. Benkov , where I began my serious education,
and graduated from College in 1974. About this period of my life has been preserved
the fondest memories. It is with great love and fond memories
my first teachers of the finest artists such as Galina
Mordvintseva...
I am reminded of the two great
painters, my teachers at the art College such as
Burmakin and millers, which opened up my world French
French Impressionists and the avant-garde.
After graduating from art school I moved to St. Petersburg. In
the period 1974 to 1976, I studied at the Leningrad Academy of arts named
Repin...
In 1978 I went to study in Moscow State
art Institute V. I. Surikov, faculty of painting, and
graduated in 1984 in the workshop of monumental painting
Professor Yuri Konstantinovich Korolev. I received a diploma of the artist
painter, muralist...
After graduation I moved to Syktyvkar
the capital of the Komi Republic and lived there until his departure to Germany. It was
the darkest period of my life. Peripherals not needed young
artists, there was a group of elite artists who considered themselves
geniuses and closed the way of youth. Was an empty struggle for survival. But
life has given me the opportunity to pass my knowledge, experience, professional
craftsmanship in the West, in Germany. In 1993, my family, my wife -
Russian, a German, moved to Germany. Since 1995 I associate Professor
one of the largest, private Academy of arts, Academy of Design
graphics in Germany.
(From an interview with the artist Yunus Karimov)
