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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid

1901 - 1991

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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (Arabic: فخر النساء زيد, Fakhr un-nisa or Fahr-El-Nissa, born Fahrünissa Şakir (Kabaağaçlı); 6 December 1901 – 5 September 1991) was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings with kaleidoscopic patterns as well as her drawings, lithographs, and sculptures. Zeid was one of the first women to go to art school in Istanbul. She lived in different cities and became part of the avant-garde scenes in 1940s Istanbul, and post-war Paris, there becoming part of the new School of Paris. Her work has been exhibited at various institutions in Paris, New York, and London, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid is the 575th most popular painter (up from 874th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 731st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Turkish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid ranks 575 out of 2,023. Before her are Thomas Lawrence, Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, Raoul Hausmann, and Tsuguharu Foujita. After her are Dorothea Tanning, Kunisada, Jens Juel, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Michael Pacher, and Asger Jorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid ranks 80. Before her are Barbara Cartland, Arthur Samuel, Zhang Xueliang, Vasili Kuznetsov, Milada Horáková, and Rudolf Caracciola. After her are Yang Kaihui, Ödön von Horváth, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Hendrik Verwoerd, and Melvyn Douglas. Among people deceased in 1991, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid ranks 62. Before her are Ernst Krenek, Dead, Christian de Castries, Henri de Lubac, William Heinesen, and Shapour Bakhtiar. After her are Aladár Gerevich, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Boris Pugo, Vilém Flusser, and Willi Boskovsky.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid ranks 551 out of 1,347. Before her are Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha (1637), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), Emine Hatun (1398), Despina Khatun (1438), Heraclius the Elder (600), and Halit Ergenç (1970). After her are Muzafer Sherif (1906), Bardaisan (154), Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus (-120), Pharnaces I of Pontus (-300), Hipponax (-600), and Aziz Sancar (1946).

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Among PAINTERS In Türkiye

Among painters born in Türkiye, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid ranks 4. Before her are Apelles (-370), Theophanes the Greek (1340), and Parrhasius (-500). After her are Arshile Gorky (1904), Osman Hamdi Bey (1842), Iaia (-100), Jan Rustem (1762), Echion (-350), Halil Pasha (1857), Nevin Çokay (1930), and Hale Asaf (1905).

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