Mohammed Ghani Hikmat

The Victory Arch, Hikmat helped to design and finish after the death of the original sculptor, Adil Kamil.

Mohammad Ghani Hikmat, (1929 – September 12, 2011) (Arabic, محمد غني حكمت) was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad's highest profile sculptures and monuments.^[1] His best known works include the Victory Arch and two statues of Queen Scheherazade and King Shahryar, located on Aby Nuwas Street.^[1] Hikmat also spearheaded the recovery of art looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein.^[1]

Hikmut was born in 1929 in Baghdad's Kadumiya neighborhood.^[1] He graduated from the Fine Arts Institute in Baghdad in 1953, before completing his studies in 1957 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy.^[1] Hikmut joined the Baghdad Group for Modern Art in 1953 and the Al-Zawiya Group (meaning The Corner) in 1967.

Mohammed Ghani Hikmat died in Amman, Jordan, where he was receiving medical treatment, on September 12, 2011, at the age of 82.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Schmidt, Michael S. (2011-09-21). "Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, Iraqi Sculptor, Dies at 82". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/design/mohammed-ghani-hikmat-iraqi-sculptor-dies-at-82.html. Retrieved 2011-09-28. 

External links

• http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/visiting-sheherazade-in-baghdad/
• http://www.iraqiart.com/artists/m_ghani.htm.
• http://artiraq.org/maia/items/show/849
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-repairs-saddams-triumphal-sword-arch-2206361.html
• http://mghanisculpture.com/

Persondata
Name	Hikmat, Mohammed Ghani
Alternative names
Short description	Sculptor
Date of birth	1929
Place of birth	Kadumiya, Baghdad, Iraq
Date of death	September 12, 2011
Place of death	Amman, Jordan