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Muhsin Kut

MUHSİN KUT  (1938 -   )

Muhsin Kut was born in 1938 in Bakırköy, Istanbul. He graduated from Kabataş Boys' High School in 1956 and started painting at the age of 17. In 1959, with the money he saved, he opened his first personal exhibition in Taksim Square and exhibited his works on the nails he hammered into the wall of the stairs leading to Gezi Park. He did his military service as a reserve officer in Urfa between 1960 and 1962, where he continued his painting works and opened exhibitions. In 1964, he was accepted to the Ceramics Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with today's important artists such as his classmate Yahşi Baraz and his period friends Komet, Mehmet Güleryüz, Utku Varlık and Ömer Kaleşi. Kut, who was constantly painting even before he entered the Academy and who was looking for every opportunity to show his paintings to the famous painters of the period and who received great praise from great names such as İbrahim Çallı, also received great praise from Sabri Berkel and all his teachers at the Academy in 1969. He graduated with honors. He continued to paint throughout his life, but he also worked in many different jobs, including working as an air traffic controller at Atatürk Airport, as a technical cartoonist in a newspaper, and as a cartoon artist in "Dolmuş", "Tef" and "Pardon" magazines. He immigrated to Australia as a worker in 1969 and stayed here for a total of 11 years. While he was working 12 hours a day at a margarine company, he also continued to paint. Kut's paintings attracted much attention in Australia and were included in the collections of important museums there. Kut, who traveled around the world throughout his life to paint and create archives, traveled to Amsterdam, Scotland, France, Venice, the Greek Islands and England, as well as Australia, and painted these cities. The artist, who was deemed worthy of many awards throughout his career, such as the 1987 Tekel Painting Competition and the 1977 Hasan Tahsin Painting Award, has works in the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul Modern and Australia's Broken Hill Municipal Museum. Muhsin Kut continues his work and life in his workshop in Bakırköy, Istanbul, where he started painting.