Şevket Dağ

Şevket Dağ (* 1876 in Istanbul ; † 1944 there ) was a Turkish painter, art educator and politician. He is best known for his interior views of historical buildings.

Life

Dağ was born in 1876 as the son of the naval captain Çerkez İsmail in the Istanbul district of Küçük Mustafa Paşa. After graduating from school, he enrolled at the Ottoman Academy of Fine Arts Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi (now Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi ), where he studied with Osman Hamdi Bey and Alexandre Vallaury . He successfully completed his studies in 1897. Initially he worked as a clerk for the Ottoman Ministry of Foundations ( Evkaf ).

In 1902 he found a job as a teacher at the Rüştiye schools. The art schools were founded during the Tanzimat and mainly taught Western art. He later taught at Galatasaray High School . He also taught at the Istanbul normal school Dar-ül Muallimin .

Dağ won a gold medal at the Munich exhibition in 1909.

In 1909 Dağ co-founded the Ottoman Painters' Association. In 1919, shortly after the founding of the republic, he founded the Türk Ressamlar Cemiyeti (German Association of Turkish Painters) with İbrahim Çallı und Hikmet Onat . From 1916 to 1939 he showed his work at the annual Galatasaray exhibition .

In 1933 three panels were exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.

From the 1920s, Şevket Dağ turned to Impressionism , following the ideas of the artist group 14 Kuşağı (Generation 14), to which Feyhaman Duran and Sami Yetik belonged, as well as their old friends Çallı and Onat.

Şevket Dağ was also politically active. He was a member of the Turkish parliament for Konya and Siirt on several occasions .

literature

Şevket Dağ . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 508 .

plant

Dağ developed his own style with simple technology and coloring, largely independently of other art movements. Blue and green are the dominant colors. His light-flooded compositions had a decisive effect on the development of Turkish impressionism. Dağ mainly painted architecture and mosque interiors, but also landscapes and figurative subjects.

Inside view of a passage in Hagia Sophia
Landscape (1918)
Rumeli Hisari fortress

Web links

Commons : Şevket Dağ - collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Dağ , ArtNet

Individual evidence

↑ Şevket Dağ . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 23, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22763-9 , p. 383.
↑ ^a ^b Şevket Dağ , Antikalar, accessed on April 5, 2018
↑ Wendy MK Shaw: Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic . IB Tauris, London / New York 1988, p. 101 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Dağ, Şevket
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish painter and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH	1944
Place of death	Istanbul

[akl-1] Şevket Dağ . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 23, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22763-9 , p. 383.

[antikalar-2] Şevket Dağ , Antikalar, accessed on April 5, 2018

[3] Wendy MK Shaw: Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic . IB Tauris, London / New York 1988, p. 101 f.