İbrahim Çallı
İbrahim Çallı (born July 13, 1882 in Çal , † May 22, 1960 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish painter . He is considered to be the pioneer of impressionism in Turkey.
Life
Çallı attended the military middle school ( Rüştiye ) in his birthplace and the high school ( Mülkiye İdadisi ) in Izmir. He studied from 1906 to 1910 at what was later to be the Institute for Fine Arts in Istanbul and with a scholarship from Fernand Cormon in Paris. His work from the 1920s had expressionist influences. In France he got to know the painting of Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley .
Back in Istanbul (1914) he became a member of the painters' association. Until the 1940s he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. He became a mentor of the so-called "Group D", a group of contemporary painters, and acted as an art teacher and pioneer of Impressionism in Turkey.
literature
- Silke Bettermann: Çallı, Ibrahim . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 604.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Çallı, İbrahim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Çal |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1960 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |