Algerian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1949, in Constantine.
Painter, miniaturist. Local scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes.
Nasreddine Abbassi was a student at the Algiers school of art. After doing a number of different jobs, he decided to take up painting as a full-time profession. Since ...
Egyptian, 20th century, female.
Born 1929.
Engraver.
Mariam Abdel Aleem studied at the institute of art in 1954, and also studied engraving and printing in the USA. She was subsequently appointed professor at Alexandria's faculty of fine art.
She has taken part in a number of important group exhibitions, including the Biennale of engraving at Ljubljana and ...
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1916, in Mallawi; died July 2004.
Sculptor. Animals.
Abdel Badi Abdel Hay studied sculpture in the free section of Cairo University's arts faculty. He often worked with hard stone such as granite, sometimes sculpting animal-like figures, elongating the surface area of his works to create work reminiscent of Pompon and Brancusi....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1925; died 1988.
Sculptor, painter. Animals.
Salah Abdel Kerim studied at Cairo's faculty of art, continuing his studies in Italy and in Paris. He was appointed Professor of Decorative Art at the same faculty in Cairo and was later appointed Dean of Fine Arts in the city....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1932.
Painter.
Raouf Abdel Méguid studied at the arts faculty in Cairo in 1955, continuing his studies in Rome in 1959. He was later appointed Professor at the faculty where he had studied as a young man. His painting incorporates traditional motifs from Arabic architectural design which he reworks, often in a playful manner....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1938, in Alexandria.
Painter.
Moustapha Abdel Mooti studied at the fine arts faculty in Alexandria and was later appointed Professor there.
He paints monumental geometric forms, spheres on top of pyramids or pyramids on top of spheres or cubes, for example, which sometimes appear to punctuate dreamlike spaces, as in his work ...
Tunisian, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 3 October 1890, in Mehdia, Algeria.
Painter, draughtsman. Nudes, portraits, landscapes.
Gilani Abdul-Wahab worked mainly in France. He began his artistic education in 1921 at the free academies of Montparnasse in Paris and at the Académie Julian....
French, 20th century, female.
Born 1908, in Oran, Algeria; died 8 December 1995.
Painter.
Abitbol exhibited a painting at the Salon d'Automne in 1937.
French, 20th century, male.
Active from 1947 active in France.
Born 8 May 1919, in Cairo, Egypt; died December 1999.
Painter. Landscapes.
Raymond Abner studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cairo from 1941-1943, then at St Martin's School of Art in London. In 1947...
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1944, in Menoufia.
Painter. Figures.
Abou Chadi has taken part in a number of local group exhibitions. He was selected to participate in the exhibition entitled Aspects of Contemporary Egyptian Art ( Visages de l'art contemporain égyptien) at the Musée Galliera in Paris in ...
Moroccan, 20th century, female.
Born 13 July 1911, in Jerusalem.
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist. Portraits.
Maïa Abourisk studied initially at Casablanca's school of fine art and then under the guidance of the orientalist painter, Lucien Mainssieux. She mainly paints portraits of famous Moroccan figures. Her works include ...
Arabic School, 10th century, male.
Died 997.
Painter.
None of the works of this artist are known.
Turkish, 20th century, male.
Born 1928, in Istanbul; died 1976.
Sculptor.
Born of Turkish-Ethiopian parents, Kuzgun Acar studied sculpture under German artist Rudolf Belling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, where he gravitated towards abstract, non-objective forms. Acar was selected to represent Turkey at the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris and at the São Paulo Biennale, both of which were held in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born in St-Denis (Réunion).
Sculptor.
Adam-Feron was a pupil of both J. Coutan and Charles Pourquet. He exhibited Bacchante at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1923, and some busts in 1924.
South African, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 23 June 1929, in Johannesburg; died 31 December 2006, in London.
Painter, printmaker, draughtsman.
Albert Adams moved to Cape Town with his mother and sister at the age of four. After high school he studied at Hewat College, and attended art classes with Peter Clarke; he was refused entrance to the Michaelis School of Fine Art because of the colour of his skin....
Beninese, 20th century, male.
Born 1942, in Cotonou.
Installation artist.
Adéagbo formerly studied law in France. On the death of his father, he returned to Benin in 1971. He has not followed the traditional 'head of the family' role by choosing a dependable profession, but rather spends his time creating what the art milieux in the West call installations. He has been sectioned on several occasions at the request of his family. It has taken him several years to be able to assert his way of living....
Nigerian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1954, in Idanre.
Painter. Genre scenes, scenes with figures.
Tayo Adenaike studied under the painter Udechukwu, who influenced many artists. He paints Nigerian society in the uli style, which takes its inspiration from the traditional forms of expression used by women and in particular old decorative motifs of an abstract nature. He participated in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 3 April 1899, in Cairo, Egypt.
Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Josiah Ades was the cousin of the writer Albert Adès, and, like him, studied law. He worked as a lawyer in Cairo and then in Alexandria and was an amateur painter until the calling became too great for him. He settled in Paris ...
Egyptian, 20th century, female.
Born in Constantinople.
Painter. Genre scenes.
Suzanne Adly exhibited some genre paintings of the Near East at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1931.
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1899, in Oran, Algeria; died 1950, in Paris.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
School of Algiers.
Maurice Adrey studied with Augustin Ferrando at the École des Beaux-Arts in Oran. He was a resident at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and graduated in ...
