Şeref Akdik
Winter Landscape
1937
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 × 70 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
A snow-covered corner of the city: in the foreground bare trees with snow clinging to their branches, at the left a wooden house with green shutters, beyond it a tall apartment building with snow on its façades and balconies, and a pale blue-grey winter sky. A quiet palette of buff, beige and leaden greys unites academic draughtsmanship with an impressionist attention to light. The artist's signature and the date 1937 appear at the lower left.
About the Artist
Şeref Akdik (1899, Istanbul – 1972, Istanbul) was the son of Kâmil Akdik, chief calligrapher of the Ottoman court; he learned calligraphy from his father and, entering the Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise) in 1915, trained in the studios of İbrahim Çallı, Ömer Adil and Warnia-Zarzecki. Having won the state examination for study in Europe he went to Paris, worked with Paul-Albert Laurens at the Académie Julian and returned home in 1928; in 1929 he was among the founders of the Association of Independent Painters and Sculptors. He taught drawing and painting for many years and, from 1951 until his retirement in 1964, ran a studio at the İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. He won first prize at the 1945 State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, and a retrospective of his work was held at the Istanbul City Gallery in 1957. Known for landscapes and portraits of firm draughtsmanship faithful to impressionist principles, he is represented in the collections of the Istanbul and Ankara Museums of Painting and Sculpture and Istanbul Modern.
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