İbrahim Çallı (13 July 1882 in Çal – 22 May 1960 in İstanbul) was a
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painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim.
Biography
İbrahim Çallı was born in
Çal
Çal is a town and a district of Denizli Province in the inner Aegean region of Turkey. Çal district area occupies a central position in the northern part of its province and neighbors the central district of Denizli to the south-west and the di ...
,
Denizli
Denizli is an industrial city in the southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about . Denizli is located in the country's Aegean Region. ...
. He showed early interest in painting during his primary and secondary education which he finished in his hometown and in
İzmir
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...
.
In 1899 he went to
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
where he worked in several jobs while he continued painting. Meanwhile, he took drawing lessons from an Armenian-origin
Ottoman painter -Roben Efendi- at Grand Bazaar. With the support of
Şeker Ahmet Paşa he entered the Fine Arts School (now
Mimar Sinan University
The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a Turkish public university dedicated to higher education in the fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul ...
) in 1906.
Graduating the school with the highest degree after four years, Çallı was sent to France with a fellowship from government where he studied under
Fernand Cormon
Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France.
Biograph ...
. During his years in France he didn't pay much attention to upcoming movements like
cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
, he embraced a free style close to
impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
. With the outbreak of World War I he returned home and was appointed assistant to
Salvatore Valeri
Salvatore Valeri (1856, Nettuno - 30 December 1946, Nettuno) was an Italian painter who spent much of his career as an art teacher in Turkey.
Biography
He studied painting at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1882, he moved from Italy to the ...
at the Fine Arts School. During the war he produced war-themed paintings in the studio founded by the War Minister
Enver Pasha
İsmail Enver, better known as Enver Pasha ( ota, اسماعیل انور پاشا; tr, İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who formed one-third ...
with other artists among them Ali Sami Boyar,
Death
He retired in 1947 and he died of gastrointestinal bleeding on 22 May 1960.
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References
People from Çal
1882 births
1960 deaths
20th-century Turkish painters
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