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 Ayoub
Hossein Al-Ayoub
• Born in Kuwait in 1932.
• Graduated from Mubarakiyah School in 1949.
• A teacher at Kuwait Ministry of Education 1949-1950, a vice
headmaster, and a headmaster. He retired at the outset of the school
year 1979-1980 after thirty-year-service.
• Painted over 600 paintings representing the old Kuwaiti environment.
• Participated in the Arab Champion Competition Exhibition in 1958, and
the nine spring exhibitions set up by the Ministry of Education; and
other exhibitions set up inside or outside Kuwait by the Kuwaiti Society
for Formative Arts, the Teachers’ Society, The Graduate Society, The
National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, and Kuwait National
Museum.
• Had Six private exhibitions in addition to this seventh exhibition:
1/ 13/11/1974 44 Teachers’ Society
2/ 13/3 /1978 34 Teachers’ Society
3/ 4/12/1985 67 Ahdullah al-Salem Suburb
4/ 1/12/1991 61 Teachers’ Society
5/ 24/3/1996 48 Abdullah al-Salem Suburb
6/ 1/4/2000 41 Abdullab al-Salem Suburb
7/ 27/3 /2004 46 Abdullab al-Salem Suburb
• Set up two exhibitions in participation with the late artist Amir
Abduiridha.
• Participated in touring exhibitions circulated in some Arab, European
and American countries.
• The first person to work at Kuwait Museum in 1956; supervised its
foundation; designed and built numerous models of the old Kuwaiti House,
old school and equipped the museum with the traditional exhibits at the
time of the former Art Education Inspector the late Mr Khamees Shihadah,
and the sincere Mr Ahmad al-Othman the then Financial Director of the
Museum.
Obtained the pioneer shield from Kuwaiti Society of Formative Arts;
honoured by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sa’ad al-Abdullah al-Salem
al-Sabah: got many other certificates of honour; awarded by the
committee that regulated the third periodical exhibition of the CCC
artists, set at Ash-Shariqah from 27/11/till 4/12/1994.
• Wrote the following books about heritage:
- Accompanying Children in the Past: Popular Games
- Kuwaiti Memoirs
- Selections from the Kuwaiti dialect
- Hawalli: The Village of Entertainment and Enjoyment
- Sayings of the people of old Kuwait.
• The Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait (CRSK) printed and
published over six-hundred-page-book embracing all his paintings from
the early 1950s till January 2002 entitled: The Kuwaiti Heritage in the
Paintings of Ayoub Hussein Al-Ayoub.
• Got the State Encouragement Reward on 2nd December 1997 for his
photographs.
• All his works have become the ownership of the people and foundations
and some are printed in the calendars.
• The first Kuwait artist whose paintings or parts of them are printed
on the Kuwaiti banknote (the fifth issue 1994).
• Accompanied his works which were displayed in Tokyo, Japan from 25
till 30 October 1998 at the expense of the Kuwaiti Ministry of
Information on the occasion of ‘Businessmen Week”. One of his paintings
was gifted to a Japanese prince who inaugurated that week.
• Set up and accompanied an exhibition in Helsinki, the Capital of
Finland, on 26 August 1999 for a week at an invitation of Kuwait
National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters.
• Finally, he got the State Award of 2001 in Fomative Arts.
• Arbitrated and supervised the following artistic exhibitions:
- Photography exhibition entitled “Kuwait...Light from the Past’ held by
the Community Service and Continual Education Administration, The Public
Authority for Applied Education and Training, 1987.
- Formative arts items in Kuwait Scientific Encyclopedia for Children,
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences from 5 November 1984
lill 24 December 1984.
- The final festival of Formative Arts tournament, Bubiyan Club which is
affiliated to Petrochemical Industries Company, held on 4 January 1979
PM.
- Photographs exhibition held at Teachers’ Society, 7 April 1973.
- Supervised the planning of the first exhibition held by the Graduate
Society in May 1973. |
