This year Uzbekistan widely celebrates the 120th anniversary of the People's Artist of Uzbekistan Mukhitdin Rakhimov’s birth. The event will include a scientific-practical conference dedicated to Mukhitdin Rakhimov’s contribution to the development of applied art in Uzbekistan.

People's Artist of Uzbekistan, master of artistic ceramics, and art critic Mukhitdin Karimovich Rakhimov was born in 1903.

He studied at the Tashkent School of Arts and Crafts under the Council of the National Economy of the Turkestan Republic (1918-1920), Moscow Institute of Silicates (1924-1926), Leningrad Ceramic Institute (1927-1929). He worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Art Studies of Uzbekistan (1965-1971), a teacher at the Tashkent Educational and Production Company of the Art Industry (1935-1950), Tashkent Theater and Art Institute (1958-1961) and Pavel Benkov Republican Art College (1952-1976).

According to art critics, his work combines the wealthiest traditions of ceramic art in Central Asia with artistic practices and scientific research of the present. Having studied the methods of making ceramic products of the ancient time and the Middle Ages, he created unique works of traditional and new forms.

Several scientific monographs and articles resulted from M. Rakhimov's research into the technology of creating and processing pottery, the history of pottery art of the Temurid era, and the Kushan Empire. One of his most famous works is “Artistic Ceramics of Uzbekistan” (1961).

Mr. Rakhimov created many magnificent works made in the technique of the Kushan and Timurid times, Tashkent ceramic school. Many of them are kept today in the best museums in the world. In 1977, he became a laureate of the State Prize of Uzbekistan named after Hamza. In the house where Mukhitdin Rakhimov lived, the Rakhimov Ceramics Museum was opened in 1994.

N.Usmanova, UzA