Bahruz Kangarli was an Azerbaijani painter born in 1892 in Nakhchivan who could not attend secondary school due to hearing loss as a child. In 1910, he went to Tiflis and studied at the Tiflis School of Arts, where he painted portraits of his teachers. Kangarli's satirical works were published in Russian magazines before the revolution. After graduating in 1916, he returned to Nakhchivan and is known for his paintings of people and motifs from the region.