1926 Artist Kalid Al-Rahhal was born in Iraq in the capital of Baghdad to a family of low-income. He grew up moving between old Baghdad shops. His contact with the Baghdadi people's life and their conditions in the thirties and forties lived like them in a profound way and it became influential on him. Such a life later left a clear impact on his lifestyle and his art.
1932 - 1934 In his youth, he grew up close to his mother and in his early years he accompanied her to the social gatherings of Baghdadi women in the popular/folk environment and to the public women’s bathhouses, which affected his artistic works. He highlighted the manifestations of this life clearly in his artistic products, especially his sculptures.
1936 From the age of ten, he was playing with the mud and began to form sculpts of people from the heap of the Tigris clay. This raised his mother's ire due to her conservative beliefs and she punished him thinking he was making idols! One day, they were passing the façade of the old Iraqi museum, and he glimpsed an Assyrian statue of the Lamassu (the winged bull), so he asked her “what is this?” She said: “He was a disobedient boy, so God turned him into a stone statue, so be careful and behave well, otherwise you will face the same destiny”. In the same year, another statue of King Faisal I was set up near the bridge, the child was confused and asked his mother: “What did the king do that God turned him into stone?” From this date, he concluded that such a mantle may make you as a disobedient boy or a king in your craft, the two things that Al-Rahhal has become after.
1939 He was expelled from the house and went to the home of a family member and worked for a small fee as a restoration and cleaning employee in the Iraqi museum. His monthly salary was eight Iraqi dinars.
1939 - 1940 Besides working in the museum, the artist studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, but soon left because he entered into a rough conflict with Faik Hassan.
1942 - 1947 he studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and obtained a diploma from it and has many friendships in the field of art, literature and poetry.
1947 He performed several sculptures, including "Baghdadi Bathhouse out of Marble" and a bust statue of the guardian prince Abd al-Ilah and became a sculptor teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts.
1948 He participated in the Iraqi Art Exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon.
