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KHALID AL RAHHAL KHALID AL RAHHAL

KHALID AL RAHHAL, Iraq (1926 - 1987)

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Born in 1926 in Baghdad, Khalid Al Rahhal Shaker obtained a diploma in sculpture from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947, where he studied under the supervision of Jewad Selim. In the...

Born in 1926 in Baghdad, Khalid Al Rahhal Shaker obtained a diploma in sculpture from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947, where he studied under the supervision of Jewad Selim. In the 1950s, he started producing replicas of artifacts or artworks from Ancient Iraq art that existed in the Department of Antiquities of the Iraq Museum. A decade later, he received a government scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and graduated in 1964 before coming back to Iraq. The career of Khalid Al Rahhal was intrinsically linked to a political context when the Baath Party had been in power since 1968 and notably during Saddam Hussein’s regime. Although it doesn’t correspond to propaganda, his oeuvre celebrates the national pride since he was commissioned to execute several public works like the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in 1982. And part of the Baghdad Group for Modern Art, he revived the past taking inspiration from the Babylonian and Assyrian practice of sculpture that he interpreted in a modern artistic language using different materials such as bronze or gypsum. In his paintings, he employed an iconography understandable by a wider popular audience, notably integrating the images of the bull or the horse, traditional symbols of potency. Khalid Al Rahhal passed away in 1987 in Baghdad.

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Documents
Critic Frouq Yousef talks about Iraqi Artist Khalid AL-RAHHAL _ Ibrahimi Collection
Farouk Youssef
Ibrahimi Collection from Gilgamesh Magazine #2, English, 1987
The importance of technology tool carved wooden sculpture of contemporary Iraqi
Jawad.Abded.Al-abass
Al-Academy, English/Arabic, 2012
THE "FREE" ART OF OCCUPATION: IMAGES FOR A "NEW" IRAQ
Nada Shabout
Pluto Journals/Arab Studies Quarterly, English, 2006
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Press
خالد الرحال
newsabah.com, Arabic, 2015
عائلة النحات خالد الرحال تنال حقوقها التقاعدية
غسان حامد
azzaman.com, Arabic, 2021
قبر الفنان خالد الرحال باقٍ في "الجندي المجهول"
حسن راشد
iraqhurr.org, Arabic, 2011
الفنون العراقية: تلتقي بزوجة الراحل خالد الرحال
هبة معوض
mo7ayd.com, Arabic
الفنان خالد الرحال
iraqipas.com, Arabic, 2016
نصب الجندي المجهول وأعمال أخرى للنحات خالد الرحال
د.ماضـي حســن نعمــة
elsada.net, Arabic
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