Şevket Dağ (1876,

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- 1944, Istanbul) was a Turkish painter, art teacher and politician. Although he painted in a wide variety of genres, he is perhaps best remembered for his

interior portrait The interior portrait (portrait d'intérieur) or, in German, Zimmerbild (room picture), is a pictorial genre that appeared in Europe near the end of the 17th century and enjoyed a great vogue in the second half of the 19th century. It involves a c ...

s of major historical structures.

Biography

His father was a Navy captain. After attending the public schools, he enrolled at the "Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (Academy of Fine Arts, now part of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), where he studied with Osman Hamdi Bey and

Alexander Vallaury Alexander Vallaury (1850–1921) was a French- Ottoman architect, who founded architectural education and lectured in the School of Fine Arts in Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire. Biography Vallaury was born in 1850 into a Levantine fam ...

; graduating in 1897. In 1902, he found employment as a teacher in the "Rüştiye" schools (Western-style schools established during the

tanzimat The Tanzimat (; ota, تنظيمات, translit=Tanzimāt, lit=Reorganization, ''see'' nizām) was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. ...

), working throughout Istanbul, as well as in

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. Later, he taught at

Galatasaray High School Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...

. One of his students there was

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, who would later be among Turkey's first

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painters. He also taught at the Dar-ül Muallimin (the Istanbul

Normal School A normal school or normal college is an institution created to Teacher education, train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum. In the 19th century in the United States, instruction in normal schools was at the high s ...

). In 1909, he was one of the founders of the "Ottoman Painters' Society". In 1919, after the establishment of the Republic, together with İbrahim Çallı and , he participated in creating the "Türk Ressamlar Cemiyeti" (Turkish Painters' Society). From 1916 to 1939, he displayed his works at the annual Galatasaray Exhibition. In the 1920s, his work took a turn toward

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, following the lead of a group of painters known as the "14 Kuşağı" (Generation 14), consisting of

Feyhaman Duran Feyhaman Duran (Sept. 17, 1886 – May 6, 1970) was a Turkish artist. Biography He was born in Istanbul in 1886. After graduating from Galatasaray High School, he was sent to Paris by Halim Paşa to study painting. He became a student of Jean- ...

and

Sami Yetik Sami Yetik (1878, Istanbul – 1945, Istanbul) was a Turkish Impressionist painter; primarily of cityscapes and landscapes. Biography His father, Hacı Raşid Efendi, was a merchant. After completing his primary education, he attended Kuleli Mil ...

, as well as his old compatriots Çallı and Onat. In addition to his work as a painter and teacher, he served several terms in the

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, representing

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

and Siirt.

Sources

Who is Şevket Dağ
@ NKFU.com
Brief biography and appreciation
@ Turkish paintings.

@ Edebiya ve Sanat Akademisi.

External links

ArtNet: More works by Dağ

''Şevket Dağ''
by Taha Toros @ Antikalar. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dag, Sevket 1876 births 1944 deaths Turkish painters Artists from Istanbul Galatasaray High School Politicians from Istanbul Deputies of Siirt Turkish Impressionist painters Burials at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery