Mustafa Aslıer (1926 - 2015) Click for Artist Information

Mustafa Aslıer (1926 - 2015)

Mustafa Aslıer (1926 - 2015)

Born in Bulgaria in 1926. Aslıer studied engraving at the Department of Painting at the Gazi Education Institute in Ankara between 1946-1949, and worked at the Munich Academy of Graphic Arts between 1953-1954, and at the Stuttgart School of Graphic Arts between 1955-1958. After 1957, he conducted research and examinations in European museums. When he returned to Turkey, he quickly became known for his paintings. He served as the head of the Department of Graphics at the School of Applied Fine Arts (now known as the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts) and as the school administrator. He participated in state exhibitions between 1958-1975. He opened his first solo exhibitions at the Senatore Gallery in Stuttgart in 1958 and at the Vienna State Gallery in 1959. After 1960, he participated in the Lubyana International Gravure Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Ravenna Printmaking exhibitions.

He participated in the Contemporary Turkish Graphic exhibitions organized in Romania, Tunisia, Algeria and Lebanon, the Sao Paulo International Biennial in 1967, and the German International Graphic Exhibition in Frechen in 1974-1976 and 1978. His works were included in the Contemporary Turkish Art exhibitions that were toured in European countries in 1963-1964. Aslıer, who opened his first personal exhibitions in Turkey in Istanbul at the beginning of 1960, continued these exhibitions in Istanbul and Ankara in 1967. He won the Republic Award in the exhibition organized for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1973, and the achievement award in the State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition in 1974. He established and developed a studio in his own name and transformed the printmaking studio of the school where he worked as a faculty member into a resource studio, thus contributing greatly to the spread and acceptance of original printmaking, especially among the younger generation artists. Aslıer was elected as the dean of Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts after receiving the title of professor in 1985. He made original printmaking works at Çamlıca Art House in 1993. The artist passed away in 2015 after a life of art that was filled with many successful exhibitions and prestigious awards.

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