AMIR HOSSEIN TABNAK امیرحسین تابناک
b.29 ABAN 1314/ 20 NOV1935,TEHRAN
d. 27 ABAN 1389/18 NOVEMBER 2010,SAN JOSE,CALIFORNIA
A graduate of school of fine arts,Ostad Tabnak was a master of Persian calligraphy,and worked in a variety of other art fields such as painting,clligraphy-painting,ceramics,book designing ,and...
He was one of the founders of Iranian Society of Calligraphy/Anjoman Khoshnevisan Iran,where he taught.He also contributed to a workshop in Dr.Sackler Gallery of Smithsonian Museum in Washington,D.C.
and thought calligraphy there,as well as in Iranian Cultural Group and School,Vienna,Virginia;Dehkhoda Cultural group,San Jose,Califortnia.Ostad Tabnak was a member and cultural adviser to Iranian Cultural Socety of Washington,and designer and cultural advisor toIranian Yellow Pages.
Tabnak's works has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Iran,U.S.,Japan,among other places
Some of Amir Hossein Tabnak,s artworks in Publications are:
A guide to Urdu language
Hafez with Hossein Zenderoudi حافظ با حسین زنده رودی
From Persia to Napa
از نیما و دریا ...Of Nima and the sea,poems of Faramarz Soleimani,Music of Nader Majd and Nima Majd,design and calligraphy:Ostad Tabnak,Cassette Cover ,Moj Book ,Washington,D.C.1995
Tabnak was a master of cooking too, a grand Persian chef,and especially his Abgousht was very well known among friends and visitors.He was a typical traditional Persian personality,with a big heart,full of love for everyone,and his vivid memories live forever with us all.
Soon excerpts of my article on Tabnak and his works,published in Simorgh Monthly of 1991
will appear in this space.
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