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Güzin Duran Portresi (Güzin Duran Portrait) by Feyhaman Duran (Turkish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1929 - Türkiye İş Bankası Resim Heykel Müzesi (Istanbul) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #WomensArt #Duran #GüzinDuran #FeyhamanDuran #PortraitofanArtist #OilPainting #smile #laugh #spouse #TurkishArtist #bskyart
Turkish artist Feyhaman Duran always lovingly portrayed his wife and fellow artist, Güzin Duran. In this portrait signed in old script as “Feyhaman 29,” he captured Güzin with her head slightly tilted to one side, her auburn hair cascading in waves over her shoulders. She looks at us sincerely from beneath lowered eyelids, smiling warmly, bringing her full vitality to the canvas. She is both naïve and coquettish, if not sleepy, peeking at us from above, reminiscent of a sweet moment of banter between a wife and her husband. Güzin Duran was a talented Turkish painter and calligrapher. She was one of the first graduates of the School of Fine Arts and went on to produce many oil paintings, landscapes, and still life paintings, as well as calligraphy panels and calligraphy. There are more than 200 of her watercolor paintings in the Topkapi Palace Museum Painting Collection (Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Resim Koleksiyonu'nda). She was born in 1898 in Istanbul, in the house of her grandfather, calligrapher Hacı Yahya Hilmi Efendi, in Süleymaniye. Her father was Naim Bey, one of the Chief Advisors of the Military Court of Cassation, and her mother was Naciye Hanım, one of the founders of the Esirgeme Association. The famous Turkish music theorist Rauf Yekta Bey was her uncle. She grew up privileged to take music, ornamentation, and painting lessons at an early age. She entered the İnas Sanayi-i Nefîse Mektebi , which trained important artists during World War I. In 1922, she won the European competition organized by the Ministry of Education and earned the right to be sent abroad for education, but she did not go because she was engaged to İbrahim Feyhaman, who was her teacher at the school at the time. They married on September 25, 1922. She exhibited her personal exhibition at the Fine Arts Academy in 1937. In addition to her painting, she worked as an art teacher for 37 years at 4 different girls schools in Istanbul.
July 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM