Ibrahim Ghannam
Ibrahim Hassan Kheite ( Arabic إبراهيم حسن خيته, DMG Ibrāhīm Ḥasan Ḫaita ; * 1930 in al-Yajur, Palestine ; † 1984 in Beirut ), better known by the stage name, "Ibrahim Ghannam" (إبراهيم غنام, DMG Ibrāhīm Ġannām ), was an artist considered one of the founders of the Palestinian art painting movement. His pictures describe the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba . He painted scenes from village life in a naive style with bright colors.
Life
Ghannam suffered from gout since childhood and used a wheelchair throughout his life. His reputation as a professional painter already arose in the “Tall az-Zaʿtar” camp east of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Ibrahim Ghannam was a founding member of the Foundation of the Association of Palestinian Artists and the Foundation of the General Federation of Arab Artists.
During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 , the Israeli army captured some of his paintings from an exhibition in West Beirut. Other paintings by him were lost in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.
Ghannam is the subject of the 1977 documentary "Palestinian Visions" by Adnan Mdanat.
Ghannam said in an interview about the expulsion from Palestine:
- "I feel my life stopped at the age of 17 because that's how old I was when I left and I only live when I dream about those days."
Web links
- Palestine Foundation for Culture (Arabic, some works by Ghannam with pictures)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gannit Ankori : Palestinian Art. Reaction Books, London 2006, ISBN 1-86189-259-4 , p. 54.
- ↑ Nurith Gertz, George Khleifi: Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory. Edinburgh University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7486-3408-8 , p. 71.
- ↑ Don McCullin , Jonathan Dimbleby The Palestinians ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghannam, Ibrahim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kheite, Ibrahim Hassan (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | al-Yajur, Palestine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |
| Place of death | Beirut |