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Fahrünnissa Zeid

Fahrünnissa Zeid

First woman artist to combine Byzantine and Islamic artistic traditions
"You have to put your whole being into your art in order to make it a masterpiece."

Date of Birth: 1901

Place of Birth: Büyükada, Istanbul

Date of Death: 05/09/1991 1991

Place of Death: Amman, Jordan

Burial Site: El Ragdan Palace Royal Cemetery, Amman, Jordan

Topics

Gallery

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Field of Activity

Painting
"Every time I paint, I realize that I am at one with all creatures, in other words, with the whole universe, with every possible kind of existence. I stand outside myself then and become a part of that creative process which spews out paintings like a volcano spews out rocks and lava, purified from the body I inhabit."
Fahrünnissa Zeyd
Exhibitions
(A selection)
  • 1944First solo exhibition in the private apartment of Fahrünnissa Zeid, Istanbul
  • 1950Hugo Gallery, New York
  • 1953Galeri Dina Vierny, Paris
  • 1964Akademie of Fine Arts, Istanbul
  • 1964Hitit Müzesi, Ankara
  • 1970Galerie Katya Granov, Paris
  • 1972Galerie Katya Granov, Paris
  • 1988Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul
  • 1994Art gallery of Erol Kerim Aksoy Vakfı, Istanbul
  • 2000Art gallery of Erol Kerim Aksoy Vakfı, Istanbul
Collections with the Works of Fahrünnissa Zeyd
(A selection)
  • İstanbul Modern, Istanbul
  • Rezan Has Müzesi, Istanbul

Awards

(No information available)

Memberships

(No information available)

Education

(No information available)

Contributions to Society

Founder of The Fahrenissa Zeid Royal Institute of Fine Arts , Amman, Jordan

Family and Friends

  • Mother: Sare İsmet Hanım
  • Father:Mehmed Şakir Paşa (ambassador, governor)
  • Daughter:Şirin Devrim (actress, theater director)
  • Sons:Nejat Devrim (artist), Prens Raad bin Zeyd
  • Sister:Aliye Berger (gravure artist)
  • Brother:Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (alias Halikarnas Balıkçısı, novellist, story writer)
  • Niece:Füreya Koral (ceramic artist),
  • Uncle:Cevat Şakir Paşa (Grand Vizier of Sultan Abdülhamid the II., reigned 1876-1909)
  • Marriage:İzzet Melih Devrim (first husband, writer), Prince Zeid (second husband, ambassador)
  • Friends:Sabiha Bozcalı (painter) , Yaşar Kemal (writer), Tilda Kemal (interpreter), Fikret Adil (writer, translator), Edouard Roditi (poet, writer, translator), Jacques Lassaigne (critic), Mina Urgan (writer, philologist, translator)

Commemorative Projects

Fahrelnissa Zeid Institute of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan

Further Reading

Sources

Quoted Sources
  • See the "Further Reading" section
Sources of Visual Images

Translation into English: Çetin Alanya, Istanbul, Turkey
Editing: Lyndall von Dewitz, Oberasbach, Germany

©2012 Meral Akkent
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