Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu

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Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu (born May 27, 1908 in Constantinople , † February 28, 1985 in Istanbul) was a Turkish art historian .

Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu had close ties to Germany. First as a student, later as a guest lecturer and as a mediator between Germany and Turkish-Ottoman art history. İpşiroğlu studied in Bonn, Hamburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1933 under Erich Rothacker at the University of Bonn with the work Hegel's Aesthetics in its historical context . Since 1934 he taught philosophy at the University of Istanbul , since 1943 as a professor. From 1949 he was professor of art history there, from 1960 to 1965 as full professor. From 1960 to 1963 he was visiting professor at the University of Tübingen .

His field of research was Islamic art history, especially Persian and Mongolian painting in Constantinople . In 1971 he analyzed and criticized the religiously based and controversial ban on images in Islam .

Fonts (selection)

  • Akhtamar Church. Building sculpture in the life of light . Kupferberg, Berlin and Mainz 1963.
  • Saray albums. Diez's adhesive tapes from the Berlin collections (= directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany, vol. 8). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1964.
  • Painting of the Mongols . Hirmer, Munich 1965.
  • The image in Islam. A ban and its consequences . Schroll, Vienna and Munich 1971m ISBN 3-7031-0059-1 .
  • Siyah Qalem. Complete facsimile edition of the sheets of the master Mehmed Siyah Qalem owned by the Topkapi Sarayi Müsesi - Istanbul and the Freer Gallery of Art - Washington . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1976, ISBN 3-201-00997-0 .
  • Masterpieces of Islamic Art. Paintings and miniatures in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005819-3 .
  • Wind of the steppe. The most beautiful sheets of the master Siyah Qalem . Academic Printing and Publishing Establishment, Graz 1984, ISBN 3-201-01231-9 .

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SURNAME İpşiroğlu, Mazhar Şevket
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ipsiroglu, Mazhar Sevket
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1985
Place of death Istanbul