Painter, writer (B. 1913,
Mudanya/Bursa – D. 6th March 2005, Ankara). Graduate of Işıklar
Military High School and İstanbul School of War. He was the student of Cemal
Nadir Güler, Mehmet Ali Laga, Celal Esad Arseven. He studied as the guest
student in the workshop of İbrahim Çallı in the Academy of Fine Arts in
1933-34. He worked as an art teacher for a short time.
He held his first exhibition in 1949
in Erzurum where he was on duty. He devoted more time to the painting after he
was retired with the rank of colonel in 1960. He joined the Association of
Soldier Artists; he served as the director of this association. He published
the Ankara Sanat Dergisi (T.N. Ankara Art Magazine) in 1966-1985. He
held more than 120 Group Exhibitions where the five of them were abroad and
thirty personal exhibitions.
His paintings in water color
technique were improved in the frame of landscape and figure and in harmony
with the classic-academic rules of the technique. He was careful to use pure
and clean colors in these painting that had Ankara and its environment as the
subject. The artist, who had a tachism style, is rather than considered as a
watercolor painter. The artist, who was one of the founder members of the
Watercolor Painters Association founded in 1970, was the president of this
group continuously until his death.
MAIN WORKS:
Asker Ressamlar ve Ekoller (1965), Sanat Terimleri Ansiklopedisi (1973),
Türk Plastik Sanatçıları Ansiklopedisi (1971), Yaşam Öyküm (1999),
Suluboya Resim Sanatı Tarihi (2009).