Sabiha Bengütaş

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Sabiha Ziya Bengütaş (* 1904 in Istanbul ; † October 2, 1992 in Ankara ) was a Turkish artist. She is considered to be the first woman sculptor in Turkey.

Life

Sabiha Ziya was born in 1904 as the daughter of a civil servant in Istanbul. She attended the Eyubsultan Numune School before living for four years in Damascus , which was then part of the Ottoman Empire and where her father worked. There she attended a French-speaking Catholic school for a year. After their return, the family settled in Büyükada , where Sabiha Ziya attended the Köprülü Fuat Pascha School. In 1920 she left school without a degree and began studying painting at the Istanbul Art Academy ( Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi , today Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi ) with Feyhaman Duran , but switched to the sculpture class the following year. She was the first student there. In 1924 she received a scholarship to the Roman Academy of Fine Arts, where she attended courses with Ermenegildo Luppi .

She later married the diplomat Şakir Emin Bengütaş, a grandson of the poet Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan . The couple traveled due to the activity of the husband a lot and settled after the retirement of Bengütaş in the district of Çankaya in Ankara down. The Bengütas adopted a daughter.

art

Sabiha Ziya's first exhibition was in 1923 at the 5th Galatasaray exhibition of the Ottoman and Turkish Painters' Association in Istanbul. Two busts were shown. Three more busts were shown at the 7th Galatasaray Exhibition in 1927. In the following year she showed five works and in 1927 four works. At the 4th Ankara painting exhibition in 1927 she was represented with two busts. In the following years she repeatedly showed work at the salons in Ankara and Istanbul.

Bengütaş mainly made sculptures of friends and acquaintances. Some of her busts are lifelike images of well-known personalities such as the poet Ahmet Haşim and Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan , the first Muslim actress Bedia Muvahhit , the politician Ali Fuat Cebesoy or the first lady Mevhibe İnönü .

In 1938 she won first prize in two competitions with sculptures by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and İsmet İnönü . The statue of Ataturk was placed in the garden of the former Çankaya presidential palace , that of İnönü in Mudanya in memory of the Mudanya armistice . She also assisted Pietro Canonica in the creation of the Monument to the Republic in Istanbul's Taksim Square in 1928.

One of her most famous works is “Head of a Young Woman” ( Genç Kadın Başı ) in İstanbul Resim ve Heykel Müzesi .

Exhibitions

  • In the 1920s and 1920s Bengütaş was mainly present at the painting exhibitions of the Turkish Association of Painters
  • 2012: Hayal ve Hakikat , İstanbul Modern

literature

  • Halil Özyiğit: İlk Türk Kadın Heykeltıraş: Sabiha Ziya Bengütaş . In: Turkish Studies , Volume 9, No. 10, pp. 853–866 ( online as PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabiha Bengütaş , Biyografya, Türkiye Ünlüleri Internet Ansiklopedisi, accessed on March 30, 2018 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ a b c d Bengütaş , Istanbul Women's Museum , accessed on March 30, 2018 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Hazal Tırnakçı: Erkek egemen toplum anlayışına karşı ilk kadın heykeltıraş: Sabiha Ziya Bengütaş , Gaia Dergi, April 1, 2016, accessed on March 30, 2018 (Turkish)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Sabiha Bengütaş , private website about the artist (Turkish)
  5. ↑ Halil Özyiğit: İlk Türk Kadın Heykeltıraş: Sabiha Ziya Bengütaş . In: Turkish Studies , Volume 9, No. 10, p. 857
personal data
SURNAME Bengütaş, Sabiha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziya Bengütaş, Sabiha; Ziya, Sabiha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1992
Place of death Ankara