Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye
Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye (born August 30, 1938 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish glass and ceramic artist.
Life
Alev Ebüzziya was born in 1938 as the daughter of the journalist, writer and historian Ziyad Ebüzziya and his wife Vala. From 1956 to 1958 Siesbye studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul and then studied with the ceramic artist Füreya Koral . From 1958 to 1960 she worked in a ceramics factory in Höhr-Grenzhausen and from 1960 to 1962 at Eczacıbaşı Holding in Istanbul. In 1963 she went to the Royal Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen as a designer, but opened a studio in 1969 and has worked as a freelance artist and designer ever since. She has lived in Paris since 1987. From 1975 to 1990 she was a designer for Rosenthal , from 1984 to 2000 for Royal Copenhagen . She has been working for the Rosendahl Design Group since 2006, producing designs for the Turkish glass factory Denizli Cam.
Siesbye's work is a mixture of minimalist Danish design language and Anatolian patterns. She mainly works with the bead technique and uses the potter's wheel for final shaping. She mainly makes bowls.
Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye was married to the Danish general manager David Siesbye from 1967 to 1979.
Awards
- 1983: Eckersberg Medal
- 1988: Ataturk gold medal
- 1988: Sanat Kurumu, ceramic prize
- 1995: Prins-Eugen-Medal
- 2000: Dannebrogorden (knight)
- 2009: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knights)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1971: Danish Arts and Crafts , Sønderborg Museet , Sønderborg ; Stifsmuseet, Viborg
- 1975: Danish Arts and Crafts , Helsingborg City Museum
- 1976: 8 Danish Ceramists , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam
- 1976: Alev Ebüzziya-Siesbye , Hetjens Museum , Düsseldorf
- 1981: Danish Ceramic Design , Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
- 1981: Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg
- 1989: Scandinavian Ceramics & Glass , Victoria and Albert Museum , London
- 1996: Designmuseum Danmark , Copenhagen
- 1999: Alev at Beymen. Glass, Silver, Textile Designs , Istanbul Archaeological Museum
- 2002: Retrospective , Designmuseum Danmark , Copenhagen
- 2002: Retrospective , Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art , Istanbul
- 2004: Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2005: Museu Nacional do Azulejo , Lisbon
- 2008: Turkish Delight - Design from Turkey , Pergamon Museum , Berlin
- 2009: Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, Vallauris
- 2010: Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum
literature
- Garth Clark: Alev Ebüziyya Siesbye . Kale Seramik Sanat Yayınları, Istanbul 1999, ISBN 975-7953-05-9
- Ufuk Tolga Savaş: Seramik Sanatında Boşluk . Gazi Üniversitesi, No. 3, 2009, pp. 105–116 ( online as PDF ; Turkish)
Web links
- Siesbye in the Istanbul Women's Museum
- Biography at the Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery
- Works in the collection of the State Art Fund Denmark
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alev Siesbye , Art Index Denmark and Weilbach's Artist Lexicon, accessed on April 26, 2017
- ↑ Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye , Puls Ceramics, accessed on April 26, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siesbye, Alev Ebüzziya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish glass and ceramic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |