Hédi Khayachi

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Hédi Khayachi ( Arabic الهادي الخياشي, born in Tunis , Tunisia in 1882 ; died 1948 in La Marsa ) was a Tunisian painter . He was the official portraitist of the Husainid court in Tunis and the first professional Muslim painter in Tunisia.

The famous Café des Nattes in the artists' village of Sidi Bou Saïd

Life

Khayachi's father came from an aristocratic line that is connected to the Prophet Mohammed and who moved from Tripolitania to Tunis during the reign of Husain I ibn Ali (1705 to 1735) . Members of the khayachi branch of the family settled in Monastir as suppliers and officials between the late 18th and early 19th centuries . Khayachi's mother was of Mamluk descent; her father ran his own craft business in Tunis.

Because of his love of painting, Khayachi took his first lessons from the French painter Émile August Pinchart (1842–1924), a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme , who lived and worked in Tunis at the beginning of the 20th century. Khayachi then attended the free art academies in the Parisian district of Montparnasse and continued his artistic training in Rome , where he specialized in portraiture and visited European museums.

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Portrait of his son Noureddine Khayachi, painted before 1948

In 1908, Khayachi created official portraits of the Beys of Tunis and the Hussainid princes. Subsequently, he worked for several leading families and high dignitaries. While he is considered to be the main portraitist in Tunisian painting and most of his works are actually portraits, Khayachi also painted landscapes and scenes of traditional life. He also found his motifs in middle-class houses and on the streets and squares of Tunisian cities. In his pictures he often depicted women in different styles. He was able to depict the interplay between light and shadow.

With Pierre Boucherle, Yahia Turki, Moses Lévy, Jules Lellouche, Ali Bellagha, Ammar Farhat, Maurice Bismouth, Hatem El Mekki and Edgard Naccache, Khayachi is one of the pioneers of Tunisian painting. He participated in around 20 exhibitions in Tunisia and Europe and represented Tunisia at numerous international artistic events.

Hédi Khayachi died in La Marsa at the age of 66. His unfinished paintings were later completed and signed by his son Noureddine Khayachi (1918–1987), who was also a painter.

Honors

The Tunisian Post honored Hédi Khayachi in 1983, 1997 and 2000 by issuing special postage stamps . In 1983, for example, one of his paintings showing a young woman at a loom featured the 80 millimes stamp, and in 2000 a still life of Khayachi with fruit was shown on the 100 millimes stamp.

Web links

Commons : Hédi Khayachi  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les Sociétés musulmanes au miroir des œuvres d'art , actes de la table ronde organisée par Hachemi Karoui, Center d'études et de recherches économiques et sociales, Tunis, May 10-13, 1993. (French)
  2. ↑ Abdessattar Amamou: Conférence à l'occasion du centenaire de la famille Khayachi dans la peinture tunisienne April 2008 Tunis. (French)
  3. ↑ a b Mokhtar Bey: Conference à l'occasion de la publication de l'ouvrage "Et la lumière et l'ombre" de Mustapha Chelbi , 2000. (French)
  4. ↑ Khayachi, Hédi. In: Oxford Art Online. October 31, 2011, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ La Poste Tunisienne: Timbre N ° 1223. In: tunisia-stamps.tn. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ La Poste Tunisienne: Timbre N ° 1621. In: tunisia-stamps.tn. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Khayachi, Hédi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES الهادي الخياشي (Arabic); Khayashi, Hadi (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death La Marsa , Tunisia