Cemal Tollu (19 April 1899 – 26 July 1968) was a Turkish

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He served in the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

as a cavalry

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. and witnessed the Fire of Manisa. In 1933 he founded the " D Group" with several other painters who were devoted to

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and Constructivism. In his later life he was to teach at the Fine Arts Academy of

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until 1965.

Paintings

*''The Burning of Manisa during the War for Liberation'' (1968) *''Mother Earth'' (1956) * ''The Ballerina'' (1935) * ''Woman with Black Dress'' (1930)

References

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