Saloua Raouda Choucair

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Saloua Raouda Choucair ( Arabic سلوى روضة شقير, DMG Salwā Rauḍa Šuqair ; born June 24, 1916 in Beirut , Ottoman Empire ; died January 27, 2017 ) was a Lebanese painter and sculptor .

Life

Choucair studied at the Beirut College for Women . Artistic training stations were in 1935 in the studio of the Lebanese painter Moustafa Farroukh (1901–1957) and in 1942 with Omar Onsi (1901–1969). She had her first exhibition in 1947 in a gallery in Beirut. When Choucair came to Paris in 1948 , she began to combine her experience of abstraction in Arab art with modern Western art. In Paris she studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and attended Fernand Léger's studio . In 1950 she exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and in 1951 had a solo exhibition in Paris with Colette Allendy . In the 1960s, she expanded her work to include sculpture, and in 1963 she was awarded for a stone sculpture in Beirut's public space.

The Tate Modern acquired a number of sculptures and pictures: Composition in Blue Module 1947-51 , The Screw 1975–7 , Infinite Structure 1963–5 , Poem Wall 1963–5 and Poem 1963–5 . In 2013 these were part of a retrospective showing the Tate in London.

literature

  • Choucair, Saloua . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 18, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22758-2 , p. 640.
  • Joseph Tarrab, Hala Schoukair, Helen Kahl, Jack Aswad: Saloua Raouda Choucair: Her Life and Art , Dar An-Nahar 2002
  • Christiane-Valerie Gerhold: On the development of art in Lebanon since 1950, cultural identity between Orient and Occident . VDM, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-5735-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100e anniversaire Saloua Raouda Choucair . Agenda Culturel, June 22, 2016, accessed on January 30, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ Saloua Raouda Choucair, pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, this 100 atm . Obituary of the Lebanese American University , January 27, 2017, accessed January 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Jackie Wollschlager: A quest for the essence: Saloua Raouda Choucair's new show . Financial Times , April 20, 2013, p. 15, accessed January 30, 2017.
  4. ^ A b Jessica Morgan: Saloua Raouda Choucair: Composition in Blue Module 1947-51 . Tate Modern , accessed January 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Saloua Raouda Choucair - Exhibition at Tate Modern . Tate Modern , accessed January 30, 2017.
    Laura Cumming: Saloua Raouda Choucair - review . The Guardian , April 21, 2013, accessed January 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Choucair, Saloua Raouda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Choucair, Saloua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017