Osgan Efendi

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Bust of Osman Hamdi Bey by Osgan Efendi

Osgan Efendi , born as Yervant Hagopi Voskan ( Armenian Երվանդ Հակոբի Ոսկան , * 1855 in Istanbul , † 1914 ) was an Ottoman painter, sculptor and lecturer of Armenian descent. In his time he was the only sculptor in the Ottoman Empire .

Life

Yervant Voskan was born in Istanbul as the son of Hagop Vosgan (1825-1907) and grandson of Voskan Gotogyan from Erzurum , who was a caster in the Imperial Mint. After Yervant received his primary education from his father, he attended the Armenian Catholic Makruhyan School in Beşiktaş . In 1866 he went to Venice to study at the Murad Raphaelian School. He began to teach sculpture on March 1, 1883 at the Mekteb-i Sanayi-i Nefise-i Şâhâne . At that time he was the first and only teacher of sculpture in the Ottoman Empire.

Together with Osman Hamdi Bey , Osgan Efendi carried out the first scientifically based archaeological research in the history of the Ottoman Empire. His research included the burial sanctuary at Nemrut Dağı ( Commagene ) in southeastern Anatolia . Osgan Efendi was the restorer of the Alexander sarcophagus . In 1908 he took leave of the academy, and died six years later.

Publications

  • with Osman Hamdi Bey: Le tumulus de Nemroud-Dagh. Voyage, description, inscriptions. Constantinople, Musée Impérial Ottoman / Pera, Loeffler 1883 (reprint Arkeoloji ve sanat yayınları, Istanbul 1987).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nancy F. Ozturk: Eyüp Sultan symposia I - VIII: Selected Articles . Ed .: District Administration of Eyüp, Directorate of Culture and Tourism. Istanbul 2005, ISBN 975-93844-9-3 , pp. 112 ( online [accessed November 28, 2012]).
  2. ↑ a b Günsel Renda, Kortepeter C. Max: The Transformation of Turkish culture: The Ataturk Legacy . Ed .: Kingston Press. Princeton, NJ 1986, ISBN 0-940670-10-0 , pp. 136 ( online [accessed November 28, 2012]).
  3. ↑ Günay Göksu Özdoğan: Türkiye'de Ermeniler: cemaat, birey, yurttaş . 1st edition. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, Şişli , Istanbul 2009, ISBN 978-6-05399095-6 , p. 99 (Turkish, online [accessed November 28, 2012]).
  4. ^ Reşat Kasaba: Turkey in the modern world . Ed .: Cambridge University Press. 1st edition. Cambridge, UK 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-62096-3 , pp. 427 ( online [accessed November 28, 2012]).
personal data
SURNAME Osgan Efendi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vosgan, Yervant; Osgan Effendi; Voskan, Yervant; Ոսկան, Երվանդ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman-Armenian painter, sculptor and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul ,
DATE OF DEATH 1914