Nedim Sönmez

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Nedim Sönmez (* 1957 in Havsa ) is a German-Turkish artist, colored paper expert and museum founder. He lived in Germany since 1980 and now works in Izmir . He became internationally known as a representative of the Turkish art of marbling (Ebru), studied the history of colored paper and founded a museum for paper and book art in Izmir on the Ege Üniversitesi .

Life

Sönmez is a graduate of the teachers' college in Edirne , where he was trained as a primary school teacher from 1972 to 1975. This was followed by a second degree at the Faculty of Business Administration at Istanbul University . In 1979 he met his future wife Yvonne Jäckle during a study visit to Warsaw . Sönmez came to Constance in 1980 and to Tübingen in 1985 . He dealt intensively with the Turkish marbling technique and has been exhibiting since 1982. An intensive phase of cooperation with Yvonne Jäckle-Sönmez followed. For 25 years he lived as a marbling artist in the Federal Republic of Germany. During this time he exhibited his work in 80 solo exhibitions in renowned museums and galleries around the world. Then Sönmez returned to Turkey. In Izmir he was able to implement the long-cherished plan of the first Turkish museum for paper and book art at Ege Üniversitesi, in which he brought mostly objects from his personal collection. There Sönmez continues his research activities and artistic activity as coordinator of the museum.

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Nedim Sönmez: Tulip, Ebru technique
Nedim Sönmez: Gentian, Ebru technique
Nedim Sönmez: Water lilies 1, Ebru technique
Nedim Sönmez: Caravan, Ebru technique
Nedim Sönmez: Underwater 1, Ebru technique

As an artist, Sönmez deals intensively with the Turkish Ebru technique of marbling and the specific motifs that arose during the Ottoman period . Among other things, he is interested in a special form of stencil technique (Akkase) that was developed in Istanbul in the 16th century . Motifs from Ottoman calligraphy are cut as stencils and placed on the marbled ground before the colors are lifted off with paper. The lettering then appears as a light recess in the marbled surface. With his extraordinary and unique style, he was able to expand the previously common motifs of flowers, textures and patterns and create individual image motifs. His visionary landscapes and underwater worlds, which are realized in Ebru technique and which are particularly characteristic of his artistic independence, attract particular attention. His colored paper works are represented in the large European and North American colored paper collections and art libraries.

As a historian of colored paper, Sönmez deals intensively with the origins of various colored paper techniques and the interactions between the Ottoman world and, above all, the German-speaking cultural area, where since the late 16th century there has been a great interest in Turkish paper in family books, among other things . Through numerous books, articles and lectures, he brought his research on the marbling technique and the history of Ebru to a large audience.

Publications

  • The story of the marbled flowers. With 10 original marbled flowers = A history of marbled flowers. Jäckle-Sönmez, Tübingen 1991.
  • Ebru. Marbled papers. Maier, Ravensburg 1992. ISBN 3-473-48104-1
  • Ebru - Turkish paper . In: Compendium of contemporary hand press prints , No. 8, Hamburg, 1992, pp. 17–30.
  • Marbling basic course. Technology, patterns, motifs . Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993. ISBN 3-419-53518-X
  • From Ebru to marble paper . In: Restauro, Mitteilungen der IADA , Volume 100, No. 1, Munich, January – February 1994, pp. 18–25.
  • From Ebru to marble paper. On the history of marble paper in the Orient and its way to Europe. With eleven original marble papers. Jäckle-Sönmez marbling workshop and publishing house, Tübingen 1995.
  • Turckisch Papir. A Brief History of Marbling in the Orient and Germany; with 10 original marble papers. Jäckle-Sönmez, Tübingen 1995.
  • Sonmez. Classic marbling patterns with 110 original tipped in samples of marbled papers. Nedim & Nuran Sönmez, Tübingen 2001.
  • Sönmez Turkish Ebru Pattern. With 45 original marble papers glued in. Nedim & Nuran Sönmez, Tübingen 2002.
  • Sönmez Ottoman motifs in the marbling technique. With 25 original marble papers, including 1 original as a cover cover = Sönmez Ottoman motifs in the art of marbling. With 25 original samples of marbled papers, of which one is cover jacket. Nedim & Nuran Sönmez, Tübingen 2003.
  • Tiger-eye marble = tiger-eye marble. With 58 original marble papers; with 58 original samples of marbled papers. Nedim & Nuran Sönmez, Tübingen 2004.
  • Marbled landscapes. With six original samples of marbled landscapes. Nedim Sönmez, Izmir 2007.
  • Spirals in marbling. With 15 original samples of new marbled patterns with spiral forms. Nedim Sönmez, Izmir 2008.
  • Under the surface with ten original samples of marbled pictures of the world's underwater nature. Nedim Sönmez, Izmir 2009.
  • Sönmez on Stamps I: Marbled Flowers. With six stamps printed by the Turkish postal system. Izmir 2017.
  • Sönmez on Stamps II: Marbled Landscapes. With six stamps printed by the Turkish postal system. Izmir 2017.
  • Marbled endpapers in German bookbinding: new archive research in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar on the use of marbled paper as an endpaper in the 17th century in Germany . In: Einband-Forschung , Issue 44, April 2019, pp. 20–27.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Barbara Lipps-Kant: Interwoven in many ways in patterns ... To marbled pictures by Nedim Sönmez . In: Nedim Sönmez. 111 selected works from 1981 to 2017. Catalog , Izmir 2018, pp. 38–42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nedim Sönmez: Ebru. Marbled papers. Maier, Ravensburg 1995, p. 151.
  2. ^ Nedim Sönmez, Yvonne Jäckle-Sönmez: Turkish paper - Ebru - Turkish marbled paper. Catalog. N. Sönmez & Y. Jäckle-Sönmez, Tübingen 1987.
  3. ^ Ege Üniversitesi Kağıt ve Kitap Sanatları Müzesi
  4. ↑ Nedim Sonmez: Marbled calligraphies. Izmir 2006.
  5. ^ Nedim Sönmez: Turkish papers in European family books of the 16th century. With two examples from the Württemberg State Library: Georg Ringler's register and Johannes Weckherlin's register. In: Alter ego. Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg 2016, pp. 156–177.
  6. ^ Nedim Sönmez: Turkish Papers in European Alba Amicorum. On the history of the decorated paper in Europe. In: Paper History 22 (2018) 2, pp. 11–15.
  7. ^ Nedim Sönmez: A short history of decorated paper in Turkey . In: Paper History 22 (2018) 1, pp. 12-17.
personal data
SURNAME Sonmez, Nedim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish artist, colored paper expert and museum founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Havsa