This is Muhittin Sebati

Muhittin Sebati (1901, Amasya – 1932, Istanbul) was a Turkish Post-impressionist painter and sculptor.

He was orphaned at an beforehand age. After a brief era in the public schools, he entered the Darüşşafaka Association bookish in 1908 and studied there until 1920. After attending one of the Galatasaray exhibitions, he developed an fascination in art and eventually enrolled at the “Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi” (School of Fine Arts), where his instructors were Hikmet Onat [tr] and İbrahim Çallı. In 1922, he had his first exhibition at the Galatasaray.

In 1925, he was awarded a scholarship to chemical analysis in Paris. He attended the Académie Julian, where he worked following Paul Albert Laurens, and the Ecolé des Arts Décoratifs, where he studied sculpture gone Paul Landowski and Hippolyte Lefèbvre. He returned to Turkey in 1928.

That thesame year, he began teaching at the Ankara Boys’ High School (apparently an obligation for receiving the scholarship) and participated in the “Birinci Genç Ressamlar Sergisi” (First exhibition of juvenile artists) at the Ethnography Museum of Ankara in 1929. Later that year, he returned to Istanbul and became one of the founders of the “Independent Painters and Sculptors Association” and was elected its first president. He had an especially flourishing showing at an exhibition held by the “Türk Ocakları” (Turkish Hearths).

In 1931, he was diagnosed taking into account tuberculosis and died to the front the as soon as year at Haydarpaşa Hospital.

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