Karim Shah Khan | |
Native Name: | کریم شاه خان |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Birth Date: | 1919 |
Death Date: | 1980s |
Nationality: | Afghan |
Field: | painting, drawing |
Style: | realism |
Karim Shah Khan (1919 - late 1980s) was an Afghan painter.[1]
He was born in Kabul and was a graduate of the A'dadieh School. Among his works are Sketches of domestic and wild animals published by the Ministry of Education. He died in Kabul in the late 1980s.[2] He is considered one of the painters of the second golden age of Realism in Afghanistan, along with Mohammad Maimangi, Abdul Ghafoor Breshna, Ghulam Mohieddin Shabnam, Hafiz Pakzad and Akbar Khorasani.[3] Nasrollah Sarvari is one of his students.[4] [5]