Müfide Kadri
Date of Birth: 1889
Place of Birth: Üsküdar, Istanbul
Date of Death: 1912
Place of Death: Istanbul
Burial Site: Karacaahmet Cemetery, Istanbul
Field of Activity
Painting
Exhibitions
- 1911Exhibition of the İstanbul Operatic Society
- 1912 Ottoman Painters Society (Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti), solo exhibition organized after the death of Müfide Kadri
Collections with the works of Müfide Kadri
Rezan Has Museum, İstanbul
Müfide Kadri as Teacher
Müfide Kadri is the first female Muslim painting teacher in the Ottoman Empire. She also gave painting lessons in the palace to Aliye Sultan, daughter of Abdülhamid II (Reign 1842-1918).
Awards
Memberships
Education
Müfide Kadri started taking private painting lessons at the age of 10. Her teachers were Osman Hamdi Bey (first museum director of the Ottoman Empire), and the painter Halil Paşa. Her oil painting teacher was Salvatore Valeri, a teacher at the Academy of Fıne Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi )
She also took piano, violin, kemenche (a three-string bowed instrument), and lute lessons.
Contributions to Society
After her death around forty of her works were donated to the Ottoman Painters Society (Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti). The first solo exhibition of Mufide Kadri's works was mounted in 1912 from this collection. The revenue generated was donated to the Ottoman Painters Society.
Family and Friends
- Mother: (No information available)
- Father: Kadri Bey
- Niece:Güzin Duran (painter, collector), Rauf Yekta (musician)
- Friends:(No information available)
Commemorative Projects
Further Reading
- Haşim Nur Gürel, "Our First Female Artist as Art Teacher… On the 95th year of the death of Müfide Kadri Hanım (1890/1912)", sanalmuze.org, http://www.sanalmuze.org/retrospektifeng/view.php?type=1&artid=760
- Esen Karadağ, Cumhuriyet Dönemi kadın sanatçıların resim öğretimindeki rolü, Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2008 http://www.belgeler.com/blg/1g5j/cumhuriyet-donemi-kadin-sanatcilarin-resim-ogretimindeki-rolu-the-role-of-women-artists-in-teaching-art-in-republic-period
- Ayşegül Demirbulak, Çağdaş Türk Resminde Otoportreler, Doktora Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Türk Sanatı Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, 2007, http://www.belgeler.com/blg/15jh/cagdas-turk-resminde-otoportreler-self-portraits-in-contemporary-turkish-art
- Ünver, Süheyl, „İlk Kadın Ressamımız Müfide Kadri". Ankara Sanat, october, 1966, p. 6.
Sources
Quoted Sources
- See the "Further Reading" section
Source of Visual Images
Acknowledgments
Translation into English: Çetin Alanya, Istanbul, Turkey Editing: Judith Cederblom, Seattle, Washington, USA ©2012 Meral Akkent