ALI AVNI CELEBI - LANDSCAPE

ALI AVNI CELEBI 1904-1993

LANDSCAPE

Signed

Oil on canvas

92 x 104 cm

Literature:

Beşiktaş Municipality MKKM Kıymet Giray

“Ali Avni Celebi Retrospective”

Istanbul 2008 Exhibition Catalogue

ALI AVNI CELEBI 1904-1993

He entered the Fine Arts Academy in 1918 and studied at the preparatory class with Hikmet

He became a student of Onat. Later he moved to Çallı workshop. In 1922

He was sent to Munich with his friends on a state scholarship and

There he followed Hans Hofmann's painting courses. Munich Fine

He passed the entrance exams to the Academy of Arts and was appointed by Prof. Gröbei

He worked for a while with Prof. Dr. He entered the Berlin Academy in 1923.

After studying for a short time in Kleine's workshop,

He returned to Munich to join Hofmann.

Çelebi returned to his homeland in 1927 and started teaching art.

Independent with his close friends, especially Zeki Kocamemi

He founded the Painters and Sculptors Union. He returned to Germany

Çelebi returned to the country in 1932 and took evening courses at the Academy.

Between 1938 and 1938 he directed the Academy of Fine Arts and Istanbul

He worked as a lecturer at the University Faculty of Letters.

He became Leopold Levy's assistant in 1938 and retired in 1967.

He continued his duty as a workshop instructor until he left.