Hoca Ali Rıza

Ressam

Eğitim
Harbiye Mektebi (Military School)
Diğer İsimler
Hodja Ali Rıza

Artist (B. 1857, Üsküdar / Istanbul - D. 1930, Üsküdar / Istanbul). His father, Üsküdarlı Mehmet Rüştü Bey of the cavalry majors, was at the same time a calligraphy master. He took painting lessons from Nuri Pasha, Miralay Süleyman Seyit Bey and a foreign teacher called Monsieur Kes when he entered the Harbiye Mektebi (Kuleli Askeri High School) in 1878. After having finished Military School (1882) he was appointed as assistant to Nuri Pasha. While continuing his post there, he became the chief-painter of the Harbiye printing house. At the time, he printed and distributed the albums consisting of his own paintings to the students, who didn't have the chance to work with a live model, as a class tool.

Hodja Ali Rıza Bey, presided the Ottoman Painters Association which was established in 1909 for a while. After his retirement from his post in Harbiye in 1911, he worked as an art teacher in schools like Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi (Faculty of Fine Arts), Çamlıca İnas Sultanisi (Çamlıca Kız High School), Erkek Ameli Hayat Mektebi (Boys Art School). He gave charcoal drawing and water color painting lessons to the students among which there was the famous artist and scientist A. Süheyl Ünver at Medresetu’l Hattatîn.

Hodja Ali Riza had many works in watercolor, oil color, charcoal painting as etude, chars and as paintings. The most famous ones among them are the paintings that he put even the smallest details of Istanbul's nature, sea and the historical buildings.

“He has many works in watercolor, oil color, charcoal painting as etude, chars and as paintings. Particularly the paintings showing Istanbul's and the Bosporus' sky, sea, trees, old houses, historical building with the smallest details reflect the grace, pureness and the intimacy of the artist's soul and therefore they have a unique charm. He was a person known to make favors to anyone who was very good natured, modest and perfect." (İbrahim Alaeddin Gövsa)

REFERENCE: Süheyl Ünver / İstanbul ve Boğaziçi Ressamı Ali Rıza Bey (1930), Nurullah Berk / Türkiye’de Resim (1943), İbrahim Alaeddin Gövsa / Türk Meşhurları (1946), Türkiye Ansiklopedisi (1974, c.1, s. 99,100), Kemal Erhan / Hoca Ali Rıza (1980), Zahir Güvemli / Çağdaş Türk Resminden Örnekler (1982), Adnan Turanî / Batı Anlayışına Dönük Türk Resim Sanatı (1984), Şennur Aydın – Veysel Uğurlu / Hoca Ali Rıza (1988), İhsan Işık / Ünlü Sanatçılar (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 5, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013).  

Painting named 'Fenerli Sokak'

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