Huseyin Avni Lifij

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Self-Portrait (1908)
Impressionistic with impasto application of paint: "View through the trees" (before 1927)

Hüseyin Avni Lifij (* 1886 in Karaaptalsultan near Ladik ; † June 2, 1927 in Istanbul ) was an Ottoman-Turkish painter.

Life

Hüseyin Avni Lifij was born in the village of Karaaptalsultan in the Black Sea region, where the family had previously fled as Circassians after the Caucasus War (1817–1864) . The family moved to Istanbul just a few days after his birth in early 1887, where the father became a civil servant. From 1893 Lifij attended a primary school, from 1896 the Numune-i Terakki Mektebi. In 1898, however, he became seriously ill and had to interrupt his schooling. During this time he began to learn French intensively and took private language lessons from Alexandre Friederich (Iskender Ferit Bey). The first paintings were created during this time. He took courses in anatomy to train himself in drawing. In 1901 he worked in the Railways Department of the Ministry of Public Works. Ferit and the French architect Henri Prost convinced Lifij to present his works to the well-known Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey . He was enthusiastic and suggested the young painter to Prince Abdülmecid for a scholarship that would enable him to study abroad.

From 1909 to 1912 Lifij attended the École des Beaux-Arts Paris and studied in Fernand Cormon's studio . In 1912 he returned to Istanbul and worked for two years as an art teacher at a boys' high school. After several group exhibitions, in February / March 1918 he organized the first solo exhibition in the building of the Orient Litteraire .

On March 25, 1922, he married Harika Şazi. In the same year, the artist spent several months in the vicinity of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara . There he painted a portrait of Fevzi Çakmak , which today hangs in the national library. From 1923 he was a lecturer in applied arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. In 1926 he traveled to Paris for a month and gave lectures there at the invitation of the artist Maurice Meys .

Hüseyin Avni Lifij died in 1927 in the Laleli district of Istanbul .

plant

Lifij is one of the so-called "Çalli artists" (also "Generation 1914") who are named after the Turkish painter İbrahim Çallı . The painter represents the generation of artists of the 1910s who painted impressionistically after their training in Paris and who were socially and politically close to the Young Turkish revolutionaries who forced the introduction of a constitutional monarchy as a form of government in the Ottoman Empire in 1908. They began to reject the past with a revolutionary gesture. Bourgeois forces gained a strong influence in Ottoman society, and the taste of the court, which had been in effect until then, was soon no longer trend-setting. As a new style of painting, an impressionism characterized by greater subjectivity prevailed. The painters mainly chose typically Turkish motifs as subjects and thus fueled nationalism.

Lifij mainly painted landscape and village views along the Bosphorus, documenting country life with traditionally dressed people in front of village mosques or rural architecture. He used colors in bright, strong tones, which he applied impasto and over a large area. Many works are symbolically charged and have a dense, melancholy atmosphere. A close proximity to the French symbolists like Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and the Romantics can be seen . One of his masterpieces is Kadıköy Urban Construction , which was commissioned by the city.

literature

  • Adnan Çoker: Poşadlar . Istanbul 1984
  • Veysel Uğurlu: Huseyin Avni Lifij . Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul 1997
  • Ahmet Kamil Brats : Avni Lifij . Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul 2001
  • Pelin Şahin Tekinalp: Ahmet Haşim ve Hüseyin Avni Lifij'den Manzaralar . In: Turkish Studies , Vol. 4, No. I-1, Winter 2009, pp. 685–700 ( online as PDF )
  • Nusin Arslan: Here and there: the central perspective : Turkish painting could wipe out monarchies - and Turkish women painters? . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 152f (see also footnote 557)

Web links

Commons : Hüseyin Avni Lifij  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hüseyin Avni Lifij kimdir? , Sanat Okur, accessed on May 6, 2020
  2. ↑ Hüseyin Avni (Lifij) , Directorate for Culture and Tourism of the Province of Samsun, accessed on May 6, 2020
  3. ↑ Mustafa Aslıer, Turan Erol, Kaya Özsezgin, Günsel renda and Adnan Turani: The history of Turkish painting . Palasar, Geneva 1989, p. 160.
  4. ↑ Aslıer, Erol, Özsezgin, Renda, Turani (1989), p. 152
  5. ↑ a b Hüseyin Avni Lifij . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 84, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023189-2 , p. 429.
  6. ↑ a b Aslıer, Erol, Özsezgin, Renda, Turani (1989), p. 160.
  7. ↑ Aslıer, Erol, Özsezgin, Renda, Turani (1989), p. 438, footnote 12
personal data
SURNAME Lifij, Huseyin Avni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lıfıj, Hüseyin Avnı; Lifij, Avni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman-Turkish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Karaaptal Sultan
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1927
Place of death Istanbul