Şükriye Dikmen

Ayşe Şükriye Dikmen (1918 – 16 September 2000), was a Turkish paintress.[2] She is known for her portraits of women and young girls.

Şükriye Dikmen
Born
Ayşe Şükriye Dikmen[1]

1918
İstanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died16 September 2000(2000-09-16) (aged 81–82)
NationalityTurkish
Alma materİstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi
Ecole du Louvre
Known forPainting

Biography

Şükriye Dikmen was born in İstanbul in 1918. Her father was Cafer Fahri Bey from Batumi of Georgian descent and a microbiologist of the early Republican era.[3][4][5] She is the older sister of paintress Tiraje Dikmen, and the niece of Ali Dikmen, a member of the Ottoman parliament Meclis-i Mebusan, and later a member of the Grand National Assembly.[6]

Dikmen received her pre-university education at the Robert College in Arnavutköy finishing in 1942.[7] Six years later in 1948, she completed her education at the Painting Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul, and then went to Paris, France.[2] In 1953, she graduated from the Art history Department of the Ecole du Louvre in Paris,[2] and worked three years with Fernand Léger and two years with Sengier Chastel and Roger Chastel.[8] In 1953, she opened her first solo exhibition,[7][8] and the next year she had her first solo exhibition in Turkey.[7]

In 1957, Dikmen participated in the exhibition of contemporary Turkish arts exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then in similar exhibitions during 1962 in Paris, Brussels, and Vienna.[7][2] In 1968, she organized a retrospective exhibition gathering both her old and new works.[7]

She died on 16 September 2000.[3]

References
  1. "Dikmen Evi". Adalar Müzesi. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. "Şükriye Dikmen (1918–2000)". kimkimdir.gen.tr. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  3. "Cafer Fahri Dikmen". Osmanlı Gürcüleri. Murat Kasap. Gdd. 20 February 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  4. Kasap, Murat (2015). "Muhacerat Sonrasında Gürcülerin Osmanlı ve Türkiye Cumhuriyetinde Rolleri Üzerine". Actual Problems of Kartvelology N4. St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of Patriarchate of Georgia. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  5. Basaran, Bulent Hasan (6–7 November 2015). "CAFER FAHRİ DIKMEN'in Hayatı, Başarıları ve Türk Kinolojisi'ndeki Yeri ve Önemi". Küçük Hayvan Veteriner Hekimleri Derneği 10. Sürekli Eğitim Kongresi: Küçük Hayvan Veteriner Hekimleri Derneği. Retrieved 6 June 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  6. "Vefat, Halide Dikmen" (in Turkish). Milliyet. 29 April 1981. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  7. "Şükriye Dikmen". turkishpaintings.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  8. "Bir Kadın Sanatçı Şükriye Dikmen / Sukriye Dikmen as a Woman Artist" (PDF). Doç.Dr. Zeliha Akçaoğlu. Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
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