Hale Asaf

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Hale Asaf in the 1920s
Self portrait

Hale Asaf (* 1905 in Istanbul as Hale Salih ; † May 31, 1938 in Paris ) was a Turkish painter with Georgian and Circassian ancestors. First she turned to constructivism , later she combined it with an expressionist approach. During her time in Paris, Asaf became interested in late Cubism from 1931 .

Life

Hale Asaf was born in Istanbul in 1905 as the daughter of the lawyer Salih Bey and his wife Enise Hanım. The father was President of the Ottoman Court of Cassation . Due to a first illness in childhood, Asaf had to undergo liver surgery at the age of five and suffered from the consequences for the rest of her life. She attended the French-speaking school Notre Dame de Sion .

In 1919, at the beginning of the Turkish Liberation War , she was sent to Rome , where she received her first painting lessons from her aunt Mihri Müşfik Hanım . The following year she went to Paris and studied with Namık İsmail . When she was 16 years old, she sent her family to Berlin to study. Although the flare-up of her illness made another operation on her lungs necessary, she passed the entrance examination at the Prussian Academy of the Arts and became a student with Arthur Kampf . In 1924, some of her portraits were first published in an art magazine.

After the war she returned to Turkey and enrolled at the "İnas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (Academy of Fine Arts), where she studied with Feyhaman Duran and İbrahim Çallı . During this time, her mother died of tuberculosis in a Swiss sanatorium and Hale used her mother's surname in the future. Shortly after enrolling, she received a grant from the Turkish Ministry of Education to study in Europe. Asaf came back to Germany and studied with Lovis Corinth at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1926 it showed works for the first time at the " Galatasaray Exhibition " - between 1916 and 1951 an important exhibition space for young Turkish artists. In 1927/28 she studied again in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with André Lhote and took private lessons with the ceramic artist İsmail Hakkı Oygar , whom she later married.

The couple went to Turkey soon after the engagement and settled in Bursa , where Oygar found a position as a teacher. Asaf also became a drawing teacher at a school for teacher training and became a French teacher at the Necati Bey School for Girls. In 1929 Asaf and Oyger were among the founders of the “Müstakil Ressamlar ve Heykeltraşlar Birliği” (Association of Independent Painters and Sculptors). Asaf was the only woman in the club.

Because Asaf did not feel comfortable in Bursa, she swapped her job with Mahmut Cûda and went to Istanbul to the “Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi” ( State Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul) , where she became the assistant to her former teacher Namık İsmail. But Asaf was not happy here either. So in 1931 she decided to go to Paris alone. She had to have another operation at the end of the year. During the convalescence phase, she met the Italian writer Antonio Aniante , who ran the “Galerie-Librarie Jeune Europe”. Asaf became the gallery director and the two became a couple. When the gallery had to close in 1934 and Aniantes books were banned in some European countries because they were directed against Benito Mussolini , the couple ran into financial difficulties. By now Asaf's disease was advanced and she suffered from cancer. In the spring of 1938 she died in Paris and was buried by Thiais on the Cimetière parisien .

Some of her paintings were destroyed during World War II. What happened to the paintings that were in Aniante's possession when he died in 1983 is unclear. Some were sold to Turkish collectors. So far, only around 30 works have been found.

literature

  • Hale Asaf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 368.
  • Hale Asaf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 71 .
  • Burcu Pelvanoğlu: Hale Asaf, Türk Resminde Bir Dönüm Noktası . Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2007, ISBN 975-08-1308-1
  • Abidin Dino: Var'la Yok Arasında Hale Asaf . In: Dünya Sanat Dergisi , No. 36, 2005
  • Antonio Aniante: Ricordi di un giovane troppo presto invecchiatosi . Bompiani, 1939
  • Fikret Adil: "Paris'te Oils Türk Ressamı: Hale Asaf" Yeni Mecmua, Istanbul 1940

Web links

Commons : Hale Asaf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography , Gürcistan Dostluk Derneği, accessed on May 23, 2018 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hale Asaf , Istanbul Women's Museum , accessed on May 23, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e biography , biyografya.com, accessed on May 23, 2018 (Turkish / English)
  4. ↑ Hale Asaf , Biyografi.net, accessed on May 23, 2018 (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME Asaf, Hale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salih, Hale (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1938
Place of death Paris