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List Of Female Calligraphers
This is a partial list of notable female calligraphers. 3rd century * Xie Daoyun Chinese poet, writer, scholar and calligrapher * Wei Shuo (272–349) Chinese calligrapher 7th-10th centuries * Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah Arabic calligrapher * Al-Nuddar (d. 984) Andalusian calligrapher and scholar * Umm al-Darda al-Sughra * Sana (8th Century) Abbasid calligrapher Kazan, H., ''Dünden Bugüne Hanım Hattatlar'' (Female Calligraphers Past And Present), Istanbul, Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2010, Chapter 5 * Fadl (d. 260/873-74) Abbasid poet and calligrapher * Gulsum al-Attabi (d. 220/835) Arabic calligrapher * Fadl (10th Century) * Duhtar-i ibn Mukla Shirazi (10th Century) * Muzna (d. 358/969) * Fadl (d. 260/873-74) * Fatima (?-?) Andalusian calligrapher 11th-12th centuries * Safiyyah bint Abd al-Rabb (d. 1026) * Fatima bint Zakariya bint Abdullah al-Shebbarp (d. 1036) * Diemoth (b. 1060-130) Bavarian calligrapher * Fatima al-Baghdadi bint Hasan b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abdullah Att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Daoyun
Xie Daoyun (謝道韞, before 340-after 399) was a Chinese poet, writer, scholar, calligrapher and debater of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Family Born in Yangxia County, Henan, Daoyun belonged to the Xie clan and was a sister of the general Xie Xuan. Though her mother is unknown, it is known that she gave birth to five more children. She was also the favourite niece of prime-minister Xie An. There were Daoist and Confucianist influences in her work. Life Her uncle Xie An enjoyed spending time with his nieces and nephews and would quiz them on literature and philosophy. She outperformed her siblings and cousins during the tests her uncle set. Later, she would defend her uncle against the criticism of Huan Xuan. She married Wang Ningzhi, son of a famous calligrapher. Despite being displeased with him, they still had several children together. The Wang family had debates at their house and she was undefeated at those. Xie Daoyun and her children accompanied Wang Ningzhi to Jiangzho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goharshad Ghazvini
Goharshad Ghazvini, also known as Goharshad Hassani Ghazvini, was a prominent Persian calligrapher of Nastaʿlīq script in the 17th century. She was Mir Emad's daughter. She learned calligraphy when she was a teenager and learned Nastaʿlīq script from her father. After her father's death, she went in 1623 to her birthplace, Qazvin, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ..., and worked as a calligraphy teacher and stayed there until her death in 1628. References People from Qazvin Iranian calligraphers 16th-century births Women calligraphers 17th-century calligraphers 1628 deaths {{Iran-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie Siu Davies
Winnie Siu Davies () is a Hong Kong-born artist specialising in sculpture, oil painting, Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy. She received her BA from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in Fine arts and received an MA in Design from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Later, she moved to Italy to study the art of marble sculpture. Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally in places such as Hong Kong University Museum, Macau, Mainland China, Taiwan, Italy and Canada. At present, she is a founding president of the studio Joy Art Club and President of Hong Kong Oil Painters' Guild (HKOPG) and Founding Chairman of Club 4 Art. Education Davies was drawing portraits of people with self-taught skills at the age of four, before she was able to read and write. She received primary art education in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy from 1976 and she studied fine art after she entered the University of Hong Kong. She started studying the art of scul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang Ch'ung-ho
Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (; May 17, 1914 – June 17, 2015), also known by her married name Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel, was a Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, educator and Kunqu opera singer. She is hailed as "the last talented woman of the Republic of China" (). Life and career Chang Ch'ung-ho (Zhang Chonghe) was born in Shanghai in 1914, with her ancestral home in Hefei, Anhui. Her great-grandfather, Zhang Shusheng (), was a high-ranking military officer in the Huai Army. Her father, Zhang Wuling (), was an educator. Her mother, Lu Ying (), was a housewife. She had six brothers and three sisters. Her eldest sister, Chang Yuen-ho (; 1907–2003), was a Kunqu expert. Her second sister, Zhang Yunhe (; 1909–2002), was also a Kunqu expert. Her third sister, Chang Chao-ho (; 1910–2003), was a teacher and writer, and the wife of the celebrated novelist Shen Congwen. At the age of 21, she was accepted to Peking University. After graduating from PKU, Chang Ch'ung-ho became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist. Personal background She was born in 1944 in Cairo to Iraqi parents, living and working in the United States, is a ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter. She is considered both as a "famous Arab American female artist" and as a "specialist in Islamic art" Selected exhibitions Solo exhibitions have been held in Beirut, 1966, 68, and 70; Florence, 1967; Abu Dhabi, 1976; Jedda, 1981; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983; London, 1984 and 85; Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia, 1990; Sackler Museum, 2001. She participated to the group exhibition ''Forces of change'' presented in 1994 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ..., Washington, where her work was described as "abstract expressionist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickie Caspi
Mickie Caspi is an Israeli-American calligrapher and artist specializing in Judaica. Early life and education Caspi was raised in Highland Park, Illinois by two artists, Thelma and Philip Padawer, who encouraged creativity from a young age. She lived in Israel on Kibbutz Nachshon for three years (1970–73). After returning to Highland Park, she studied art at Columbia College in Chicago. Career and artistic inspiration Caspi worked as an artist-in-residence at the Kohl Jewish Teacher Center in Wilmette, Illinois. After graduating from Columbia College in 1982, she returned to Israel, living on Kibbutz Harel and then in Jerusalem. She spent seven years as a freelance artist and calligrapher in Israel before returning to the United States in 1989 and establishing Caspi Cards & Art. Her hundreds of original designs have been reproduced on greeting cards, Judaic art prints, calendars and is known for her innovations as a Ketubah artist. She introduced the first pre-printed Same Sex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Charlotte Benenson
Leslie Charlotte Benenson, R.E. (13 January 1941 - 18 February 2018) was an English artist who worked in a variety of different mediums, including sculpture, oils, watercolours, ceramics and calligraphy.''Who's Who in Art'' (Twentieth Edition, 1982) Life and work Benenson was born in London, where she attended La Sagesse Convent High School, before studying art at the Regent Street Polytechnic (1958–63) under Geoffrey H. Deeley and James Osborne. She was awarded a National Diploma in Design in 1962. In addition to her permanent studies, Benenson took private calligraphy tuition with Anthony Wood between 1963–64, after which she was elected a member to the Society of Scribes & Illuminators. After successfully exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1962, and at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1968, Benenson was elected to member status of the latter institution in 1978. Additionally, Benenson was one of the founder members of the Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ameena Ahmad Ahuja
Ameena Ahmad Ahuja is an Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist, known for her Urdu poetry-inspired art works. Biography Ameena Ahmad Ahuja was born to a British mother and Nuruddin Ahmed, a barrister and litterateur. She did her training in art at the Slade School of Art in London. She is a former member of faculty of the Department of Russian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and, besides Russian, she is proficient in languages such as Persian, German, French, Hindi and English. Her career also covered stints at Columbia University as a lecturer of poetry and as an Artist-in-residence Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ... at the Harvard University and her exhibitions have been staged at many places in India and abroad including Moscow, Toky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wijdan Ali
Princess Wijdan Ali ( ar, وجدان علي) (born 29 August 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Jordanian artist, art historian, educator and diplomat. She is the ex-wife of Prince 'Ali bin Naif of Jordan. She is best known for her efforts to revive the traditions of Islamic art and her abstract paintings and for her work as an art historian. Education and career She was born Sharifa Wijdan bint Fawwaz in Baghdad on 29 August 1939 into a noble family and was raised in Jordan. She was the daughter of Sharif Fawwaz Muhana, an architect, and his wife, Sharifa Nafi'a bint Jamil Ali. Both her parents could trace their ancestry to the Prophet Mohammed, which allowed her to be given the title of ''Sharifa''. In 1962, she joined the Foreign Office of the United Nations in Jordan, shortly after completing her B.A. in Middle Eastern history from Beirut University College (1961), now the Lebanese American University. She was the first woman to enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jordan (1962) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Zhenxiu
Cao Zhenxiu (; 1762–?) was a Chinese calligrapher. She was from 1782 married to the official and calligrapher Wang Qisun. She was known as the best female calligrapher in China of her time, and it was common for those ordering calligraphy from her spouse to order from her as well. See also *List of Female Calligraphers This is a partial list of notable female calligraphers. 3rd century * Xie Daoyun Chinese poet, writer, scholar and calligrapher * Wei Shuo (272–349) Chinese calligrapher 7th-10th centuries * Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah Arabic calligrapher * Al ... References * Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911' 18th-century Chinese calligraphers Women calligraphers 1762 births Year of death unknown 18th-century Chinese women artists {{calligraphy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Im Yunjidang
Im Yunjidang (임윤지당, 任允摯堂; 1721-1793) was a Korean writer and neo-Confucian philosopher. She defended the right for a woman to become a Confucian master and argued that men and women did not differ in their human nature by interpretations of Confucianism values in moral self cultivation and human nature. Life Im Yujidang was born in Wonju, Gangwon Province into the Pungcheon Im clan (풍천 임씨, 豊川 任氏) to Im Jeok who served as a judge in Hamheung. She belonged to a poor yangban family. Due to the hardships of her life, like the death of her father, retreat of the family to a mountain village, she was less pressured by the usual stereotypes of her time. Moreover, her brother, Im Seong-ju have been moved by her talented mind and helped her to read, access, teach the Classic of filial piety (''Hyogyeong''; 효경, 孝經), Biographies of Exemplary Women (''Yeolnyeojeon''; 열녀전, 列女傳), Lesser learning (Sohak; ''소학'', 小學), and became a libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fang Weiyi
Fang Weiyi (1585-1668, 方維儀), was a Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian. Biography Fang Weiyi was the daughter of the landowner and aristocrat courtier Fang Dahzen (d. 1629). Her sister Fang Mengshi, and her female cousin Fang Weize, were also to be known as poets. She married Yao Sunqi (d. 1602) and had a daughter, but became a childless widow the year of her marriage. She returned to her family, where she assisted her sister-in-law to raise her nephew, the philosopher Fang Yizhi A fang is a long, pointed tooth. In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh. In snakes, it is a specialized tooth that is associated with a venom gland (see snake venom). Spiders also have external Cheli ... (d. 1671). She was a skilled calligrapher, and known as a landscape painter. As a poet, she described the contemporary political and social instability. She published three anthologies in literature history focused in fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |