A short presentation about Outstanding Turkish artists

1. MOST
OUTSTANDING
TUKISH ARTISTS

2. PAINTERS…
• OSMAN HAMDİ BEY
• (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was
an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a
prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an
accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of
the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder
of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of Istanbul Academy of Fine
Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish), known today as the Mimar
Sinan University of Fine Arts.

3. SOME WORKS of OSMAN HAMDİ BEY

4. • Abidin Dino
• (March 23, 1913 – December 7, 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-
known painter. Abidin Dino was interested in everything that was alive,
skillfully capturing images with his brush, pencil and camera. He had two
favorite themes: hands and flowers. In a book of small drawings, which he
did for his wife Guzin published on the tenth anniversary of his death,
glimpses of the love and sense of solidarity are seen, which were his
inspiration. Entitled "Guzin's Abidins", this book consists of drawings and
essays by Abidin Dino.
• One may come across his name in numerous art galleries
and museums around the world, in a poem, the lyrics of a song, or a book.
Not only is he one of the pioneers of modern Turkish painting, but
produced masterful works in such disparate fields as caricature,
sculpture, ceramics, cinema, and literature.
• Dino died on December 7, 1993 at the Villejuif Hospital in Paris. He was laid
to rest in the Aşiyan Cemetery in Istanbul.

5. SOME WORKS of ABİDİN DİNO

6. • Fikret Muallâ Saygı
• (1904 in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey – July 20, 1967 in Reillanne, France)
was a 20th-century avant-garde painter of Turkish descent. His work
reflects influences from Expressionism and Fauvism, with subject
matter focusing on Paris street life, social gatherings such as cafés and
circuses.

7. • Bedri Rahmi EYÜBOĞLU
• was born 1911 in Görele on the Black Sea. He was the second child of a
family with five. His elder brother, Sabahattin Eyuboglu, was a well-known
writer and his younger sister, Mualla Eyüboğlu, was one of the first
architects working in restoration. She is well known for her work at
the Harem section of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.
• Due to his father's position as a Governor, he lived in various parts of
Turkey before attending high school in Trabzon. He moved in 1929 to
Istanbul to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul.[1]
• He left the Academy temporarily in 1931 to study in France with his
brother. He learned French in Dijon and later in Lyon. Bedri Rahmi studied
then at the Andre Lohte studio in Paris, where he met his future wife,
Ernestine Letoni.
• Back in Turkey, he completed his studies and obtained his diploma in 1936.
In 1937, he entered the Academy as an assistant and translator of Leopold
Levy. Eyüpoğlu remained at the Academy until his death in 1975.

8. SOME WORKS of BEDRİ RAHMİ EYÜBOĞLU

9. SCULPTERERS…
• ALİ TEOMAN GERMANER
• He was born in 1934 in Istanbul. He studied at iDGSA Department of
Sculpture between 1949-1954. He also studied art at art workshops
of Rudolf Belling, Zühtü Müridoğlu and Ali Hadi Bara.

10. • Ali Hadi Bara
• was born in Tehran but moved with his family to Turkey when he was
young. From 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Fine Arts Academy in
[Istanbul]. Following this he went to Paris and studied sculpture
with Henri Bouchard and Charles Despiau. In 1930 he returned to
Istanbul and the Fine Arts Academy to become an assistant
teacher. He visited Paris between 1949 and 1950, after which he
ceased to create figural works and instead turned to creating non-
figural sculpture. From 1950 until his death in 1971 he worked at the
Academy in Istanbul.

11. SOME WORKS of ALİ HADİ BARA

12. ARTCHITECTURE
Great Sinan
Mimar Koca Sinan, the "Great Architect Sinan", was born in Anatolia in a
small town called Ağırnas near the city of Kayseri, Turkey in 1489.
His Works:
Selimiye Mosque
Atik Valide Sultan Mosque
Sultan Suleyman Bridge
Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha

14. • Emre Arolat is a Turkish architect, and a winner of architecture
awards such as the Mies van der Rohe Award for European
Architecture, and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He holds the
International Academy of Architecture title of Professor of the
Academy.

15. Authors and Poets…
• Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7
June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient
of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent
novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three
languages,making him the country's best-selling writer

17. • Nazim Hikmet
• He was born on January 15, 1902 where his father served in the
Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his
artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published
when he was seventeen. Many of his works have been translated into
English, including Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel
in Verse (2009), Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (1975), The Day Before
Tomorrow (1972), The Moscow Symphony(1970), and Selected
Poems (1967). In 1936 he published Seyh Bedreddin destani (“The Epic
of Shaykh Bedreddin”) and Memleketimden insan
manzaralari (“Portraits of People from My Land”).

19. MUSICIANS…
• Fazıl Say (Composer and Pianist)
• He was born in 1970. He was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic
arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. His father, having found
out that he was playing the melody of "Daha Dün Annemizin" (Turkish
version of Ah! vous dirai-je, maman) on a makeshift flute with no prior
training, enlisted the help of Ali Kemal Kaya, an oboe artist and a family
friend. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons under the tutelage
of pianist Mithat Fenmen.

20. • İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish
concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic
repertoire.

21. Actors and Actresses
• Afife Jale
• (1902 – July 24, 1941)She was a Turkish stage actress, best known as
the first Muslim theatre actress in Turkey.
• She was studying at the Girls Industry School in Istanbul; however, she
wanted to be an actress. In the Ottoman Empire, Muslim Turkish women
were not allowed to play on stage by a decree of the Ministry of the
Interior. Only non-Muslim women of Greek, Armenian, or Jewish minorities
were eligible for being cast.
• Afife's father was against a theatre career of her because he considered it
unsound. For this reason, she ran away from her parent's house. She
entered as a trainee the theatre of the newly established city conservatory
(Ottoman Turkish: Darülbedayi). The Conservatory had opened up a course
to train Muslim women actresses with the rationale to play for women
audience only.

23. HALUK BİLGİNER
• He was born 5 June 1954 .After graduating from Ankara State
Conservatory, he went to England (1977) and acted in various British
plays and shows (My Fair Lady, Macbeth, Pal Joey, Belami, Phantom of
the Opera) and also TV series (Eastenders, Glory Boys, Murder of a
Moderate Man, Bergerac, Memories of Midnight, The Bill) between
the year 1980-1993. He, then, founded his own theater in Ankara. He
has won 2 awards in Antalya. Lately he has been acting in 'Other
death of Jeanne d Arc'.