An exhibition of Oil-Painting of Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, now in Düsseldorf, Setareh Gallery

An exhibition of Oil-Painting of Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, now in Düsseldorf, Setareh Gallery

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar was born in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1984, during the middle of the Iran–Iraq War. Through his mother, Firouzeh Bakhtiar-Bakhtiariha, he traces his descent from Iran's ancient Bakhtiari tribe. His great-grandfather General Gholam-Hossein Khan Bakhtiar (Sardar Mohtashem), was Iran's Minister of War, while his grandfather Abdolhamid Bakhtiar was a Majles deputy. Many of his other relatives, such as the late Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar and General Teymour Bakhtiar (two of his great-uncles), as well as the second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Queen Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, to name a few, were also notable figures in the Pahlavi and Qajar eras. Through his father, he is a descendant of the Qajar monarch Ahmad Shah.
Although born in Paris, Behnam-Bakhtiar spent his formative years in Tehran, and, at the age of nineteen, moved to nearby Dubai to study at the American University in Dubai (AUD). Later on, with his wife, Maria Zakharchenko, he relocated to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in France continuing his studies at the nearby Principality of Monaco to obtain his MBA at the International University of Monaco.

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