Şükriye Dikmen

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

Şükriye Dikmen
Born	Ayşe Şükriye Dikmen[1] 1918 İstanbul, Turkey
Died	16 September 2000(2000-09-16) (aged 81–82)
Nationality	Turkish
Alma mater	İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Ecole du Louvre
Known for	Painting

Life

Şükriye Dikmen was born in İstanbul in 1918. Her father was Cafer Fahri Bey of Batum, a scientist of the Republican era.[3] She is the older sister of painter Tiraje Dikmen, and the nephew of Ali Dikmen, a member of the Ottoman parliament Meclis-i Mebusan, and later a member of the Grand National Assembly.[4]

Dikmen received her pre-university education at the Robert College in Arnavutköy finishing in 1942.[5] 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.[6] In 1953, she opened her first solo exhibition,[5][6] and the next year she had her first solo exhibition in Turkey.[5]

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.[5][2] In 1968, she organized a retrospective exhibition gathering both her old and new works.[5]

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. "Vefat, Halide Dikmen" (in Turkish). Milliyet. 29 April 1981. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
5. "Şükriye Dikmen". turkishpaintings.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
6. "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.