Fatma Nazlı Ecevit (4 January 1900 - 14 August 1985) was a Turkish realist-impressionist painter. She was the mother of the former Prime minister Bülent Ecevit.[1]
Nazlı Ecevit | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 January 1900 |
| Died | 14 August 1985 (aged 85) Ankara, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | Teaching, painting |
| Style | Realism-Impressionism |
Early life
Fatma Nazlı was born in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire, on 4 January 1900.[2] Her father was Colonel Emin Sargut, her paternal grandfather Major general (Ottoman Turkish: Ferik) Salih Pasha and her maternal grandfather Kirat Pasha, an aid of the Ottoman Sultan[3]
After graduating from the Çapa Teacher's School for Girls (Ottoman Turkish: Çapa İnas Dar-ül muallimat) in 1915, Mihri Müşfik, one of the sirst Turkish women painters, encouraged her for education in painting. So, she went on to study at Fine Arts School for Girls (Ottoman Turkish: İnas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi)[4] between 1915 and 1922, where she was taught by Ömer Adil, and joined theworkshop of Feyhaman Duran.[3] She obtained her teaching certificate as the exit examinations were cancelled due to the Turkish War of Independence.[5] She was employed as painting teacher at Beşiktaş Junior High School for Girls,[3] She then moved with her father to Kastamonu in Anatolia, and suspended her painting career for the duration of 25 years.[5] She served there for a while as teacher, and later in Bolu and İzmit.[3]
She married in 1924 and moved to Ankara.[3] The next year, she gave birth to a son, Bülent EcevitBülent, who later became a political party leader and Prime minister.[4] She worked as painting teacher at Ankara Teacher's School of Music.[3] Furthermore, she served at Istanbul Master Junior High School. Her teacher career lasted for 19 years. She resumed painting in 1947.[5]
Painting career
Ecevit showed her works at Galatasaray Expositions during her student years and at group exhibitions after 1947. She also held private exhibitions. During her student years, she painted portrait and nude. Her lworks present a realist and impressionist style, she developed in the "Fine Arts Union", of which she was a member and for sometime also its chairperson.[5][3] She has common characteristics with Turkish painters of the 1930s generation like İbrahim Çallı, Şeref Akdik, Ali Karsan and Adil Doğançay. She has a powerful design. After 1947, she painted mostly landscape and still life. She combined the soft and colorful sensitivity of the impressionist style in landscape paintigs compiled from Salacak, Bosporus in Istanbul and Bursa with objective realist look in local atmosphere.[5]
Her impressionist paintings are based on the tradition, which is transmitted to date from the military painters in Turkey. From 1948 to 1975, she displayed her works almost every year at the State Art and Sculpture Exhibition. Her works are in oil, watercolor, crayon and charcoal.[3]
Works
Her notable paintings are:[5]
- Keriman Hanım'ın Portresi (Poretrait of Kerman Hanım), (1922) İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum
- Çiçekler (Flowers), İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum
- Çamlıca^dan Bakış (View from Çamlıca)
- Balkonlu Manzara (Landscape with Balcony)
- Bebek (Baby), (sold in April 2000 approx. to US$ 19,200)[6]
- Salacakta Kız Kulesi (Maiden's Tower at Salacak), (sold in June to approx. US$ 23,200)[7]
- Boğaziçi (Bosporus), (1954) (sold in June 2000 to approx. US$ 8,000)[7]
The oil painting Maiden's Tower at Salacak has been hanged in the office building of Prime minister in July 2003 ordered by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he took office as Prime minister in March that year.[8]
References
- ^ "14 Ağustos 1985" (in Turkish). Tarihte Bugün. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Nazlı Ecevit Doğum Tarihi" (in Turkish). Tarihte Bugün. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Nazlı Ecevit" (in Turkish). Turkish Paintings. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Türk Kadınının İlk Sanat Okulu: İnas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (in Turkish). Arsız Sanat. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Nazlı Ecevit Kimdir, Hayatı, Eserleri, Hakkında Bilgi" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "Nazlı Ecevit'in tablosuna 12 milyar". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 11 April 2000. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Nazlı Ecevit'in iki tablosuna 19.5 milyar". NTV MSNBC (in Turkish). 2 June 2000. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "Ecevit'in annesi Nazlı Ecevit'in tablosu Başbakanlık makamına asıldı". TGRT Haber (in Turkish). 20 July 2003. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.