Mahmoud Tounsi
Mahmoud Tounsi ( Arabic محمود التونسي; * December 13, 1944 in Menzel Temime ; † April 12, 2001 ibid) was a Tunisian painter and writer .
Life
He attended primary school in his hometown and then secondary school in Tunis . He then went to the Institut des Beaux-Arts in Tunis, where he studied with Abdelaziz Gorgi , among others . Initially employed in administration and later at the headquarters of the state broadcaster ERTT , he later became an art teacher at the high school in his hometown. On August 20, 1972, he married Nesria Saidi there. He lived with her in Paris for two years and returned to Tunisia in 1975.
As a political activist, he co-founded the National Freedom Council ( Conseil national des libertés ) in 1977 , which later became the Tunisian Human Rights League ( Ligue tunisienne des droits de l'homme , LTDH). After he was temporarily active in the Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes , he later moved to the ruling Constitutional Democratic Collection (RCD). In 2000 he became mayor of his hometown. He died in a car accident a year later.
Tounsi was best known for his poems and short stories in the 1970s. He later began to be interested in painting, regularly taking part in solo and group exhibitions from the 1980s onwards, and selling several of his paintings.
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- Short biography (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tounsi, Mahmoud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | محمود التونسي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Menzel Temime |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2001 |
| Place of death | Menzel Temime |