The talented Chechen painter Zamir Yushaev was born in Khasavyurt in Dagestan on the 22nd of April 1965 in a family where the love for painting was inherited to the children from father, an amateur painter.

He had his preliminary education in painting at the Arts Collage in the city of Makhachkala. Then he served in the Soviet army. He studied in the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg in between 1987 and 1992. Later he continued his education in the German city of Leipzig (1992-1997). Currently he lives in Germany and works there. In 2002 Zamir Yushaev won the snow sculpture competition and displayed his talent also as a sculptor.

Participation in many arts exhibitions witnesses Zamir Yushaev’s success:

1986   Travelling exhibition of the Caucasian Arts in Grozny, Nalchik and Makhachkala

1986   Exhibition of painters from Checheno-Ingushetia in Grozny

1987   Regional exhibition of young painters in Leningrad

1993   Exhibition at the Romanus Haus gallery in Leipzig

1993   German national exhibition of students in Bonn

1994   Personal exhibition at the Russian General-Consulate in Leipzig

1994   German national exhibition “Gedankenflug” in Bonn

1994   Competition-exhibition in lithography at the German national museum in Nuremberg

1995   Personal exhibition at the “Am Burgkeller” gallery in Leipzig

1996   Russian painters’ exhibition at the “Atrium” gallery in Leipzig

1997   Personal exhibition at the German-Russian centre in Leipzig

1998   International exhibition at “Prizmahaus” in Berlin

1999   Exhibition of Leipzig’s painters in Leipzig

1999   International exhibition of painters in Barcelona

2000   Personal exhibition at “Ostevropakontakt” in Leipzig

2001   Exhibition of Yumashev brothers in Izerlon

2002   Exhibition of portraits of famous Germans in Leipzig