Abidin Dino

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Abidin Dino , often just Abidine , (born March 23, 1913 in Istanbul , † December 7, 1993 in Paris ) was a Turkish artist and filmmaker.

Life

Dino was born in 1913 as the fifth and last child into an educated middle-class family. He started drawing and painting at an early age. As a child, he lived with his family in Geneva and France before the family returned to Istanbul in 1925. Dino attended Robert College but left school without a degree to devote himself entirely to painting, drawing and writing. His articles and cartoons soon appeared in daily newspapers and magazines. In 1933 he and five other painters founded "Gruppe D", which blended Western art with oriental folk and Turkish calligraphy. He also illustrated Nâzım Hikmet's volumes of poetry.

In 1933, the Soviet film director Sergei Iossifowitsch Jutkewitsch invited Dino to the Lenfil film studios in St. Petersburg. The two met while filming Jutkewitsch in Ankara. In Leningrad, Dino worked at several film studios as a set designer and assistant director and directed the film Miners in Moscow , Kiev and Odessa . Shortly after his return to Turkey, he traveled to Paris , where he worked between 1937 and 1939. Here he met artists such as Gertrude Stein , Tristan Tzara and Picasso .

After his return to Istanbul after the outbreak of the Second World War, he took part in the famous "Harbor Exhibition". Dino founded the "Port Grubu", which portrayed the life of dock workers and fishermen at work. The exhibition attracted a lot of public attention. Dino was commissioned to equip the Turkish pavilion for the 1939 World's Fair in New York . He also published more articles and drawings in magazines and tried a new approach to realism together with his brother, the poet Aruf dino .

During the Second World War he drew a lot about the conflict, but his work with political motives aroused displeasure and so Dino was banished to Mecitözü with his brother after the declaration of martial law in 1941 and later to Adana . In 1943 he married Güzin Dilek.

The years of exile up to 1945 were artistically very fruitful for Dino. While his wife Güzin Dino was teaching French at a secondary school in Adana , he worked for the local daily Türk Sözü and wrote articles. During this time he portrayed the hard life of the Turkish farmers in the countryside. He also wrote the plays Kahl and Der Erbe "and began to sculpt. In 1945 he had to take up military service in Kayseri, but was soon dismissed for health reasons. In 1946 he was allowed to settle in Ankara, where his wife now holds an extraordinary professorship He was allowed to leave Turkey in 1951. He only went to Rome for nine months and then settled in Paris in 1952. He has since worked with ceramics and Picasso invited him to Vallauris to work in the Madoura pottery, where he did some Worked hard for months.

Monument to Abidin Dino in Özgürlük Parkı in Kadıköy , İstanbul

The home of the dinosaurs in Paris quickly became a meeting place for artists and writers. The couple had moved into a studio above Max Ernst's apartment on Saint-Michel and later lived in a small apartment in Paris' Rue de L'Eure.

French friends as well as compatriots Nâzım Hikmet, Yaşar Kemal , Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Melih Cevdet often met at the dinosaurs. But they also helped young artists and students in Paris and introduced them to other artists. From 1954 Abidin Dino took part in the "Salon de Mai" in Paris for eight years. Güzin Dino produced articles for Radio France , taught Turkish in the Oriental Language Department of the Sorbonne and translated Turkish literature into French.

Although Abidin Dino lived abroad, he kept in close contact with his friends and colleagues in Turkey and took an active part in developments in Turkey. He did not return to Turkey until 1969 and opened an exhibition with his works. From now on he traveled more frequently to his home country and took part in the opening of individual and group exhibitions. After 1957, Dino increasingly turned to lyrical abstraction.

In 1979 he was elected honorary president of the French artists' union UNAP. His film Goal! 1966 World Cup won the Flaherty Prize . The documentary deals with the 1966 World Cup final and was not limited to just the game, but also to people in London and all of England.

Dino died in 1993 in the Villejuif hospital in Paris. He was buried in the Aşiyan Cemetery in Istanbul.

Exhibitions (selection)

Publications

  • with Güzin Dino: Sensiz Her Şey Renksiz . Can Yayınları, 2007
  • Kısa Hayat Öyküm . Can Yayınları
  • Pera Palas . Sel Yayıncılık 2013
  • Kültür Sanat Ve Politika Üstüne Yazılar . Adam Yayınları, 2013

literature

  • Kaya Ozsezgin: Abidin Dino Categories Siniflamanin Disinda Bir Sanatci . Kaynak Yayinlari, 2015
  • Abidin Dino Toplu Yazilar 1938-1994 . Everest Yayinlari, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography of Abidin Dino , biyografi.info, accessed on April 5, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Abidin Dino . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 140.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Abidin Dino , Hürriyet , June 27, 2010
  4. ↑ The World of Abidin Dino , Sakıp Sabancı Museum , accessed April 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Dino, Abidin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abidine (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish painter, sculptor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1993
Place of death Paris