Draft:Issatay Issabayev

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Isatay Nuryshevich Isabayev (Kazakh: Исатай Нұрышұлы Исабаев; Russian: Исатай Нурышевич Исабаев; 18 February 1936 – 22 April 2007) was a Soviet and Kazakh graphic artist, painter and book illustrator. He was an Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR, an Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan, and a laureate of the independent Tarlan Prize.

Isabayev was born on 18 February 1936 in Zhansugurov village, Almaty Region, Kazakh ASSR, Soviet Union. From 1958 he worked in major publishing houses of the Kazakh SSR as an artist and art editor, including Körkem Ädebiet, Zhazushy, Zhalyn, Öner and Ana Tili.

From 1959 to 1966 he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute under Andrei Goncharov and Pavel Zakharov, representatives of the school of Vladimir Favorsky. His graduation work was a large series of linocuts for the three-volume edition of Aitys, published by Zhazushy in 1965.

In 1966 Isabayev became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. From 1966 to 1973 he worked as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Alma-Ata. From 1988 to 1998 he served as chief artist at the Ministry of Press and Mass Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Isabayev worked in several forms of printmaking, including woodcut, linocut, etching, aquatint, autolithography, drypoint and mezzotint. He was also active as a painter. He became known for book illustrations and graphic series devoted to Kazakh epic literature, folklore and everyday life.

• 1988 — Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR
• 1991 — Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
• 1991 — Behzad diploma for best graphic art of the year, Ashgabat
• 2004 — Tarlan Prize for contribution to the visual arts of Kazakhstan

Isabayev participated in republican, all-Union and international exhibitions from the 1960s onward. His works were exhibited in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden, France, Canada, Finland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, the United States, Hungary and Austria.

His father, Nurys Isabayev, was a war veteran. His mother, Sakypzhamal Isabayeva, was a folk craftswoman known for Kazakh applied arts, including tekemet and syrmak.

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