Hussein Bicar - Artist Info

About Hussein Bicar

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Hussein Bikar
  • Biography

    As an artist, Bicar was considered a tour de force of talent; teacher, illustrator, painter, poet and musician, Bicar embraced the arts in their totality achieving renown in many of the fields he applied his trade to. Born in 1913 in Alexandria, Egypt, he graduated from Fine Arts College in 1933, and subsequently from the Ahlia School for Painting.

    He taught at, and eventually headed the Painting Department of the Faculty of Arts at Qena at 1955. He was a founder of the Helwan Wax Museum. In 1944, Bicar began his career in journalism when he became, with Ahmad Sabry, Mustapha Amin and Ali Amin, one of the founding fathers of the prestigious Akhbar el-Youm newspaper, doing drawings often accompanied by h...

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