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Hakkı Anlı

Hakkı Anlı (1906-1990)

Born in 1906 in Istanbul, he studied at the Sanayi-i Nefise School (now Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) between 1924 and 1932. He became a student of Namık İsmail. In 1933, he joined the members of Group D. In 1947, he went to Paris for a short time. Then, in 1949, he went to Paris again and worked in Jean Metzinger's studio at the Academie Frochet. He was very impressed by Paris and participated in joint exhibitions with artists such as Poliakoff, Archipenko, Hartung and Zadkine. He held his first solo exhibition in Paris (La Main Gauche) in 1958. In the 1940s and the following period, he participated in group exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and New Zealand and continued to live and work in Paris until 1990.

Hakkı Anlı, who started his first painting works with the encouragement and guidance of Avni Lifij during his high school years, made figure paintings in which color, form and volume concerns came to the fore during his studies at the Academy. When he went to Paris, he was influenced by Cezanne and Picasso Cubism, but after the 1955s, he moved away from these post-cubist paintings and towards the 1960s, he turned towards the Abstract-Expressionist/Lyrical Abstract understanding, in which thick and moving brush strokes came to the fore.1969-75 The artist, who turned to figure studies and figurative abstraction again between the years, realized rhythmic semi-abstract figurative or completely abstract-expressionist works based on few colors, in which erotic themes predominate with dark tones and moving brush strokes covering the entire canvas in the following years with the experience and gains of abstract painting. In addition to his figurative abstract paintings, his completely abstract paintings dominated by brush strokes based on colors are among the first examples of Turkish Contemporary Abstract Art. Hakkı Anlı's paintings are in various museums and important collections in Turkey and abroad. He died in 1991 in Paris.