Aliye Berger

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Aliye Berger , also Aliye Berger-Boronai (* 1903 in Istanbul ; † August 9, 1974 ibid), was a Turkish artist.

Life

Family picture from 1910; Aliye Berger sits in the front right.

Berger was born in 1903 as the daughter of the Ottoman politician Mehmed Şakir Pascha (1855-1914) on the island of Büyükada . Her brother Cevat Şakir was a well-known writer, her sister Fahrelnissa Zeid a well-known artist. She was the aunt of the ceramic artist Füreya Koral and the painter Nejat Devrim .

Berger attended the French-language Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul, where he studied painting and music (piano), but was unable to finish this course because of the First World War, as the school was closed. In 1924 she took violin lessons from Karl Berger-Boronoi . The two became a couple and lived together for many years, but did not get married until 1947. Karl Berger died after only six months of marriage.

From 1935 to 1939 she lived in Berlin and Paris, then in London. There she worked for three years with John Buckland Wright . In 1951 she returned to Istanbul and had her first solo exhibition here. During this time she mainly made etchings and engravings. She owned the first private gravure press in Turkey. From the mid-1950s she also painted. Her favorite subjects were landscapes and cityscapes of Istanbul.

Awards

  • 1954: 1st prize from Yapı Kredi Bankası on the occasion of the AICA meeting in Istanbul
  • 1955: 2nd prize at the Tehran Biennale

Exhibitions

  • 1955: Tehran Biennial
  • 1960: 2nd International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo
  • 1967: Contemporary Turkish painting, graphics, sculpture and architecture , Linz
  • 1972: Alexandria Biennial
  • 2011/2012: Hayal ve Hakikat - Türkiye'den Modern ve Çağdaş Kadın Sanatçılar , İstanbul Modern
  • 2016: Anı ve Süreklilik - Huma Kabakçı Koleksiyonu'ndan Bir Seçki , Pera Museum , Istanbul

literature

  • Mustafa Aslıer: The Art of Printing in Turkey . In: The history of Turkish painting , Palasar, Geneva 1989, pp. 425, 429
  • Godfrey Goodwin: Kitten with Claws . In: Mediterraneans | Méditerranéennes . 10/1998, pp. 352–357 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Aliye Berger , Biyografya, accessed on February 13, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Aliye Berger . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 368.
  3. ↑ Hayal ve Hakikat , Istanbul, accessed February 13, 2019
  4. ↑ Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabakcı Collection , Pera Museum , Istanbul, accessed February 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Aliye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger-Boronai, Aliye (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1974
Place of death Istanbul