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....
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.
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 ...
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.
Nigerian, 20th century, male.
Painter.
Afolabi is one of the representatives of Oshogbo art, which explores 'the Yoruba myths using modern pictorial techniques' and which is characterised by 'its expressivity, its sensual colours and fantastical or surreal compositions' (Jutta Stöter-Bender).
Stöter-Bender, Jutta: L'Art contemporain dans les pays du "tiers-monde"...Togolese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 12 February 1977, in Lomé.
Painter (mixed media).
Félix Agbokou studied under Sokey Edoth between 1996 and 1999. He abandoned realism in favour of depicting a fantasy world, and his paintings are spontaneous to the extent that they have no predefined theme. Painted at night and by candlelight, each series of paintings is directly inspired by its immediate surroundings: Lomé, Kouma, Abouri or Ghana. Agbokou uses materials that come readily to hand - leaves of indigenous plants or the bark of local trees - and mixes them with acrylic paint, outlining his forms and individual colours with a black line obtained from a mixture of coconut milk and old nails. His work has featured at group exhibitions, including the ...
Tunisian, 20th century, male.
Born 21 July 1921, in Tunis; died 1988.
Painter.
Dominique Agnello was somewhat influenced by Cubism, like many of his generation, but distanced himself from it with his use of strong colours and a tormented style.
From 1953, his works were exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and at the Salon d'Automne....
Moroccan, 20th century, male.
Born 1924, in Oulmès.
Painter, draughtsman.
Aherdan is a poet and politician as well as an artist. He uses a kind of automatic style when painting and drawing.
M' Rabet, Khalil: Peinture et identité L'expérience marocain, L'Harmattan, Rabat, after 1980.Madagascan, 20th century, female.
Born 20 March 1940, in Antsirabe.
Painter. Landscapes with figures.
Josette Ahime settled in France in 1965, began painting in 1969, and soon after exhibited her work in France and Italy. She lived in Antibes, and her work portrays the folklore of the old town, in particular the many festivals that take place there. She also paints landscapes of the region's undulating countryside, particularly after snowfalls....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1931, in Cairo.
Painter.
Rifaat Ahmed studied in the free section of the Arts Faculty in Cairo, after which he obtained a grant to study in the studio run by Louksor, where he stayed from 1959 to 1962.
His painting is very distinct. He traces signs clearly inspired by Arabic calligraphy and Egyptian hieroglyphics on backgrounds rich in figurative subject matter. These signs sometimes consist solely of their own volutes and arabesques, but sometimes include some identifiable shapes and forms, for example, ...
