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Celile Hanım

Celile Hanım

First Turkish woman painter to concentrate on the female nude figure.
"I am Celile the painter, Nazım Hikmet's mother."

Date of Birth: 1880

Place of Birth: Salonika

Date of Death: 1956

Place of Death: Ankara

Burial Site:

Topics

Gallery

Celile Hanım Celile Hanım

Etkinlik Alanı

Resim
Celile Hanım was a very productive painter and as she painted she gave most of her works to her friends. Her paintings of Turkish baths, in particular, were very much sought after. She would give them away under one condition: that they would be hung in the livingroom, not in the bedroom.
Murat Germen, "Celile Hanım", in: Kaya Özsezgin, Celile Hanım, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001, p. 102.
Exhibitions
(A selection)
  • 1916 First Galatasaray Exhibition
  • 1940 Adana Cultural Center (Halkevi) exhibition
  • 1956 Ankara Exhibition
  • 1988 Bakırköy Cultural Center (solo exhibition)

Awards

(No information available)

Memberships

Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti member

Education

(No information available)

Contributions to Society

(No information available)

Akraba ve Dostları

  • Mother: Leyla Hanım
  • Father: Enver Paşa (linguist, teacher, adjutant to Sultan Abdulhamit II., reigned 1876-1909)
  • Grandfather:Mehmet Ali Paşa
  • Marriage:Hikmet Bey (first marriage, poet, governor), İbrahim Bey (second marriage)
  • Daughter: Samiye
  • Son: Nazım Hikmet (poet)
  • Nephew:Oktay Rıfat (poet, novelist, playwright)
  • Granddaughter:Ayşe Yaltırım (painter)
  • Great grandson:Murat Germen (artist, academician)
  • Friends: Fausto Zonaro (painter), Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (poet)

Commemorative Projects

Publication
Murat Germen, Celile Hanım, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001

Further Reading

Sources

Quoted Sources
  • See the "Further Reading" section
Source for Visual Images
  • Murat Germen's private archives

Acknowledgments

The Istanbul Women's Museum is grateful to Burcu Pelvanoğlu and to Murat Germen for their support in producing the Celile Hanım's memorial page.


Translation into English: Emre Aslay, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Editing: Lyndall von Dewitz, Oberasbach, Germany

©2012 Meral Akkent
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