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Füreya Koral
Füreya Koral (June 2, 1910 – August 25, 1997) was a pioneering ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey.
Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles and statuettes, and also created ceramic-inlaid tables and stools . She started working on ceramics after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis while receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Switzerland. A self-taught artist, her works were mostly ignored during her lifetime although she did create wood-and-ceramic furnishings for the new National Assembly Building in Ankara. Seeking to push the limits of ceramics beyond its function, she was inspired by the art of the ancient civilisations of Turkey, Mexico and East Asia, especially Japan, and her work often combines elements taken from both Western and Eastern artistic traditions.
She signed her works with the anglicised version of her given name, Fureya.
Füreya Koral was born in Büyükada, Istanbul. Her father was Mehmet Emin Paşa, a notable soldier and statesman in the Ottoman Empire and then a companion to Atatürk, her mother was Hakkiye Hanım and her grandfather was Mehmed Şakır Paşa, an Ottoman statesman and historian. Like her aunts Fahrelnissa Zeid, Aliye Berger and Ayşe Erdem, and her uncle Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (the Fisherman of Halicarnassus), Koral was an enthusiast for music, painting and literature.
She studied at the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul and received a diploma from a private Jewish High School in 1928. She then enrolled at the Department of Philosophy at the Istanbul University Faculty of Literature in 1929 but her father's illness and mandatory retirement forced her to quit university before graduating as the family's financial situation deteriorated.
In 1930, she moved to Bursa after marrying a farm owner named Selahattin Karacagil. The couple divorced in 1932 and in 1935 she remarried to Kılıç Ali, a close friend of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. After Atatürk's death, the couple moved back to Istanbul.
Immediately after helping her aunt, artist Fahrelnissa Zeid, open her first solo exhibition in her home at the Ralli Apartment Block in 1945, Füreya was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She started treatment at the [tasis) Sanatorium in Switzerland, where she took painting lessons from a Polish artist.
While in Switzerland Füreya began to experiment with ceramics using materials sent to her by her aunts Fahrelnissa Zeid and Aliye Berger. In 1949, she attended a ceramics workshop in Lausanne. In 1950, she moved to Paris to resume treatment for TB and there she crossed paths with the ceramics artist Georges Serré (1889–1956) and, on his advice, began working on firing techniques at a workshop outside Paris. She also met the art critics Jacques Lassaigne and Charles Estienne who advised her to stage an exhibition.
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Füreya Koral
Füreya Koral (June 2, 1910 – August 25, 1997) was a pioneering ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey.
Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles and statuettes, and also created ceramic-inlaid tables and stools . She started working on ceramics after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis while receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Switzerland. A self-taught artist, her works were mostly ignored during her lifetime although she did create wood-and-ceramic furnishings for the new National Assembly Building in Ankara. Seeking to push the limits of ceramics beyond its function, she was inspired by the art of the ancient civilisations of Turkey, Mexico and East Asia, especially Japan, and her work often combines elements taken from both Western and Eastern artistic traditions.
She signed her works with the anglicised version of her given name, Fureya.
Füreya Koral was born in Büyükada, Istanbul. Her father was Mehmet Emin Paşa, a notable soldier and statesman in the Ottoman Empire and then a companion to Atatürk, her mother was Hakkiye Hanım and her grandfather was Mehmed Şakır Paşa, an Ottoman statesman and historian. Like her aunts Fahrelnissa Zeid, Aliye Berger and Ayşe Erdem, and her uncle Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (the Fisherman of Halicarnassus), Koral was an enthusiast for music, painting and literature.
She studied at the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul and received a diploma from a private Jewish High School in 1928. She then enrolled at the Department of Philosophy at the Istanbul University Faculty of Literature in 1929 but her father's illness and mandatory retirement forced her to quit university before graduating as the family's financial situation deteriorated.
In 1930, she moved to Bursa after marrying a farm owner named Selahattin Karacagil. The couple divorced in 1932 and in 1935 she remarried to Kılıç Ali, a close friend of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. After Atatürk's death, the couple moved back to Istanbul.
Immediately after helping her aunt, artist Fahrelnissa Zeid, open her first solo exhibition in her home at the Ralli Apartment Block in 1945, Füreya was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She started treatment at the [tasis) Sanatorium in Switzerland, where she took painting lessons from a Polish artist.
While in Switzerland Füreya began to experiment with ceramics using materials sent to her by her aunts Fahrelnissa Zeid and Aliye Berger. In 1949, she attended a ceramics workshop in Lausanne. In 1950, she moved to Paris to resume treatment for TB and there she crossed paths with the ceramics artist Georges Serré (1889–1956) and, on his advice, began working on firing techniques at a workshop outside Paris. She also met the art critics Jacques Lassaigne and Charles Estienne who advised her to stage an exhibition.
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