FAMOUS WRITERS AND PAINTERS FROM TURKEY

Prepared by :Mert MATER

FIVE SENSES COMENIUS PROJECT2013-2015

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family similar to those which he describes in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book, in the wealthy westernised district of Nisantasi. As he writes in his autobiographical book Istanbul, from his childhood until the age of 22 he devoted himself largely to painting and dreamed of becoming an artist. After graduating from the secular American Robert College in Istanbul, he studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years, but abandoned the course when he gave up his ambition to become an architect and artist. He went on to graduate in journalism from Istanbul University, but never worked as a journalist. At the age of 23 Pamuk decided to become a novelist, and giving up everything else retreated into his flat and began to write. 

His first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons was published seven years later in 1982. The novel is the story of three generations of a wealthy Istanbul family living in Nisantasi, Pamuk's own home district. The novel was awarded both the Orhan Kemal and Milliyet literary prizes. The following year Pamuk published his novel The Silent House, which in French translation won the 1991 Prix de la découverte européene. The White Castle (1985) about the frictions and friendship between a Venetian slave and an Ottoman scholar was published in English and many other languages from 1990 onwards, bringing Pamuk his first international fame. The same year Pamuk went to America, where he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York from 1985 to 1988. It was there that he wrote most of his novel The Black Book, in which the streets, past, chemistry and texture of Istanbul are described through the story of a lawyer seeking his missing wife. 

Yasar Kemal was born Yasar Kemal Gökçeli in Adana, in autumn 1922, into a family of well-to-do landlords. His parents came originally from the shores of Lake Van, on the eastern frontiers of Turkey. After a long trek on foot, they settled on the South Anatolian plain of Cilicia, a region populated by big landowners, poor peasants, and the Kurds. This rocky and hot landscape of the Taurus Mountains served as the background for several of Kemal's stories. 

At the time of Yasar's birth, his father Sadi Kemal was already 50, his mother Nigar was only 17. Her family descended from the Kizikan tribe. Nigar's brother Mayro was a famous outlaw, who led a short but adventurous life. He was killed when he was 25. Mayro provided the model for Kemal's rebellious heroes.

Kemal lost his right eye early in his childhood in a accident. When Kemal was five he saw his father killed by his adoptive son Yusuf while praying at the mosque.  Due to this traumatic experience, he developed a stutter, but eventually managed to cure himself by chanting folk songs. To her mother's disappointment, he refused to kill Yusuf as a revenge. 

Kemal grew up in the small village of Hemite. He started to attend a school at the age of nine in a neighborhood village, and later went to stay with relatives who lived in Kadirli. His first poems Kemal wrote at the age of eight. His parents spoke Kurdish, but they had also learned to speak Turkish. The children spoke mainly in Turkish.

Yasar Kemal was born Yasar Kemal Gökçeli in Adana, in autumn 1922, into a family of well-to-do landlords. His parents came originally from the shores of Lake Van, on the eastern frontiers of Turkey. After a long trek on foot, they settled on the South Anatolian plain of Cilicia, a region populated by big landowners, poor peasants, and the Kurds. This rocky and hot landscape of the Taurus Mountains served as the background for several of Kemal's stories. 

At the time of Yasar's birth, his father Sadi Kemal was already 50, his mother Nigar was only 17. Her family descended from the Kizikan tribe. Nigar's brother Mayro was a famous outlaw, who led a short but adventurous life. He was killed when he was 25. Mayro provided the model for Kemal's rebellious heroes.

Kemal lost his right eye early in his childhood in a accident. When Kemal was five he saw his father killed by his adoptive son Yusuf while praying at the mosque.  Due to this traumatic experience, he developed a stutter, but eventually managed to cure himself by chanting folk songs. To her mother's disappointment, he refused to kill Yusuf as a revenge. 

Kemal grew up in the small village of Hemite. He started to attend a school at the age of nine in a neighborhood village, and later went to stay with relatives who lived in Kadirli. His first poems Kemal wrote at the age of eight. His parents spoke Kurdish, but they had also learned to speak Turkish. The children spoke mainly in Turkish.

He was born in Salonica (1902). He completed his primary education in stanbul at Göztepe Ta mektep, primary section of İ şGalatasaray High School (1914) and Ni anta ı Numune School, ş şand received his secondary education at Heybeliada Naval School (1918) where he attended upon the recommendation of Naval Forces Commander Cemal Pa a, who listened and very much şadmired his poem "The Words of a Naval Officer" that he wrote when he was only 12. After graduating from the Naval School, Nâzım Hikmet was assigned to Hamidiye Cruiser as a trainee deck officer, he caught cold and pleurisy during a night watch (1919), and as he could not recover his health, he was discharged from military as disabled (1920). 

After leaving military, being very sorry about the occupation of stanbul, Nâzım Hikmet went to Anatolia to participate in the İ

National Struggle and served as a teacher at Bolu High School for a short time (1921). The poet, interested in the Russian revolution, went to Moscow from Batum after some time and studied economy and social science at the Easter University (1922-1924). He joined Aydınlık magazine after his return home, passed to Russia again when he was informed that a verdict of sentence "in default" was given against him because of his poems published there, returned to Turkey upon the enforcement of amnesty and kept under detention at Hopa prison for sometime (1928). 

In 1928, Beyo lu, was born in Istanbul. As a child in the cinema ğwas very impressed. In 1951 he graduated from Getronagan Armenian High School. Film studio filmmaking in high school, he worked in every branch. Muhsin began to receive training in theater and acting Ertugrul. His aim was to be a director or playwright. In 1950 began the new Istanbul newspaper journalism. Stories in Armenian newspapers and literary magazines published in this year. At the same time he continued to Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. However, he decided to become a photographer and journalist.

Journalists Association of Turkey in 1979, received the first prize in photojournalism branch. Khan was booked by some of the photographs Publishing in 1980. Hürriyet Foundation published in 1986, the Professor Abdullah Quran photographed book written by Mimar Sinan. This book was published in English in 1987 by the Institute of Turkish Studies.

  He was born in 1938 in Istanbul. In 1958 he entered the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 1966 graduated first. Acting learning process in parallel with the different academies "actors studio" s and has developed important amateur in theather in 1963, directed by Asaf Çi iltepe Arena Theater ğbegan her professional acting career.

  Pattern weighted first solo exhibition was opened in 1963. Between the years 1970-75 as a state scholarship has made a specialization in painting and lithography in Paris. Made his first sculpture in Paris in 1971, and made the Pont des Arts in suspension.

Fikret Mualla Respect born in Istanbul. He died in France in July 1967 at the Nice region. After the death of an accidental remain lame and his mother spent was little events like father's remarriage played a role in the nervous and awkward child olms. Saint Joseph High School and studied at a time Galatsaray after the French school, but was sent to Germany to study engineering even before graduating. I traveled around Germany, went to Switzerland and Italy, toured the museum. Ability to realize the image was acquired in a short time a solid pattern information. Successful paintings, fashion drawings and engravings were made, were accepted by the most popular German magazine patterns. His father's financial situation deteriorates it becomes an Egyptian prince can not send money, gave him until the age of twenty-five, in Germany.

Fikret Mualla was treated in hospital for a while in 1928 because of excessive alcohol passion. He then moved to France from Germany, living in artistic circles as Montparnasse and Saint Germain in Paris. There, he met Hale Asaf at the Andre Lhote studio. After a while painting in Paris, Mualla returned to Turkey due to lack of money. Ayvalık Secondary School in 1934, he applied to the Ministry of Education to ensure the livelihood was appointed as an art teacher, but he resigned shortly after this task. Istanbul in Luxury Life, Crazy Hail, has designed costumes for operettas such as Reed Jazz. Nazim Hikmet pictures Varan the third poem book. smayil Rights Baltacıo lu prepared designs for the İ ğnew man magazine. At one point, misinterpreted some of the lyrics were taken into custody by order of the prosecutor's office because of a 1936 close to the Bakırköy Mental Hospital. He was discharged towards the end of 1937. Until police began growing fear and death in Fikret Mualla time after this event.

Upon his father's death, thinking that they can live their lives in the hands of Paris with the inheritance share in 1939 was separated from Turkey. With the exit from the hospital two years between leaving Turkey at the 1939 International Exhibition in New York did Abidin Dino thirty ISTANBUL table on the request for the Turkish Pavilion. For audio magazine published in 1938 on the grounds that the design is one of the draw obscene, lawsuit was filed against him after leaving Turkey, was acquitted in 1939. This was written at the time and the sound is published "Tales" and "no substantial HQ" has a history of doing both.

Dino was born in 1913 in stanbul. After living in Switzerland and İFrance, the artist returned to Turkey at the age of 15. Dino was among the five other painters to found the “D” Group in 1933. During 1937-1939, he lived in Paris and was acquinted with the famous artists of the time. Later in 1940, he returned to stanbul İand joined the “New” group, founded in the same year and participated in the famous Harbor Exhibition. In 1951, he went to Rome and Paris and after settling there, he had his first solo exhibition in 1955 at Galerie Kleber and later on at Galerie Camille Renaud in Paris. From 1955 onwards, he exhibited in various institutions, including a solo show at the Picasso Museum in Antibes, France (1958), Musée de la Céramique in Italy (1990) as well as in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Russia, Germany and Greece.

Dino also exhibited at the 16th Venice Biennial in 1952, at Salon de Mai in Paris in 1954 and 1962, 1st stanbul Biennial in 1987, at a İgroup show in the Barbican Centre in London in 1989; Turkish Artists Exhibition at Musée de l’Art Moderne in Paris in 1964. For Abidin Dino, art is the unification of experience, accumulated knowledge, all objects and formations of the artist from past into the future. Therefore, it is true for all periods of his work that constant search, change and renovation have been the essence of his work. The bond that connects his works of different periods is the continuity of intellectuality and visual quality and its organic interaction. Sakıp Sabancı Museum held a retrospective of Abidin Dino’s works. As well as being a painter, Dino was also a sculptor, author and a director. The artist passed away in 1993 in Paris. 

He was born in 1929. Painters and maps Fair is Dogancay officer's son. Received art training from his father and the first well-known painter Arif Kaptan. Began painting his father's encouragement, the economy had finished he studied law at the University of Ankara and Paris in 1955 was the beginning of a journey through art in front of the doctor. While the one hand, academic training, he continued his work in the other hand, uninterruptedly. Student in Paris he attended La Grande Chaumiere in painting. When he returned to finish his PhD in Ankara opened joint exhibitions with his father in the Art Lovers Club. In 1961, 22 State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition was adopted five official. Year 1962 I went to New York. In 1964, the Guggenheim museum director Thomas Messer one of the artist's work to get to the museum's collection, the artist's belief in the future winner of this challenge has been further strengthened. Will begin with the New York wall important source of inspiration for the 'walls' series began in the same year. Because the walls, quickly left behind the passing of life 'reflected everything.

In 1975, the artist set out here, which covers 114 countries' World Walls began a photography project. The product of this project in 1982, Georges Pompidou in Paris in 'Whispering Walls' was exhibited for the first time under the name. In 1983, the design of the famous artists from Aubusson carpet center of France began to touch as the tapestries. In 1986, the Brooklyn Bridge undergoing a major overhaul of the 19 large size photographs of New York City in celebration of the 100th (1998) exhibited a period of nearly two years of JFK International Airport. Then these photos' Walls of the World "was published in book form under the title. In 2001, Dr. Nejat Eczacıba ı held the first retrospective exhibition with the şsupport of the Foundation in Istanbul Dolmabahce Palace. In June 2003 the artist, 'Respect the Line Art' work is hung on the new European Parliament building in Brussels. He died in Istanbul on January 15, 2013. He was buried Bodrum.

I found one thing about smail ACAR:İ Born in Su ehri (Sivas) in 1971.ş

Entered the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Painting in 1988. Graduated as valedictorian from the Prof. Ergin nan atelier in Marmara University İFaculty of Fine Arts in 1992.Submitted his masters thesis, ‘Technology and Art,’ in 1993. 

in 1955, he entered the painting Department of stanbul State Academy of fine İarts. Halil Dikmen's Gallery, was a student of Bedri Rahmi Eyübo lu in the ğworkshop.in 1959, he founded the "Soyutçu 7 s" group.

He graduated from the painting Department of the Istanbul Academy of fine arts.in 1962, he became an Assistant to the Academy. Bedri Rahmi Eyübo lu, Cemal ğTollu and Cevat Dereli took part in workshops.in 1963, Tülay Tura, Altan Gürman, Adnan Çoker and Sarkis and "Blue Group" established.in 1965 the Government of Spain has given a scholarship by the art went to Madrid and Barcelona have started vocational research and review continued in London and Paris.in 1969, Chairman of the Association of Contemporary Artists in Turkey. in 1970 I. D. G. S received the title of Professor from the Academy.Chairman of the Visual Artists Association in 1975.in 1979, he was appointed to the Office of the stanbul painting and Sculpture İMuseum; three and a half years in this task was not found.in 1981 I. D. G. S Academy of Profösörlü e rose.ğ1985 Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of fine arts painting Department,in 1988, Phillips University, fine arts Department,Mimar Sinan University of fine arts in 1990, he was appointed Assistant Dean.

Devrim Erbil has opened many group exhibitions abroad. He was the captain of the exhibitions introducing Turkish Art.(Alexandria, Belgrade, Sofia, Kuwait)Published articles, gave lectures on art.The artist's works of stanbul-Ankara- zmir painting and İ İsculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, Banja Luka Bucharest Museums Umnetnicka Galerija Ben and Abby Gray Foundation collection, the Ankara national library collection, both at home and abroad are official institutions and private collections.