Feyhaman Duran - Artist Info

About Feyhaman Duran

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Duran Feyhaman
  • Biography

    "Feyhaman Duran: Painting between the Ottoman Past and the Turkish Modernity," Serap Gungor, February 6, 2017

    Feyhaman Duran was born in Istanbul in 1886. His talent for painting was detected during his education in the Galatasaray Mekteb-i Sultani, which was renamed later to Galatasaray Lycee. After his graduation he started to work in the same school as a teacher for a short while but his talent opened him the way to Paris. There, Duran could improve his skills in two famous art schools Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian.

    Back in Istanbul, with the end of the First World War, he continued to work as a teacher and later as an academician. In 1919 he became a member of the Ottoman Painter Society to which he contributed...

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