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Ali Hadi Bara

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Nationality
  
Turkish

Known for
  
Sculpture


Name
  
Ali Bara

Role
  
Sculptor


Born
  
September 9, 1906
Tehran, Iran

Education
  
Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul

Died
  
August 30, 1971, Istanbul, Turkey

Ali Hadi Bara (September 9, 1906 – August 30, 1971) was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.

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Biography

Ali Hadi Bara was born in Tehran but moved with his family to Turkey when he was young. From 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul. Following this he went to Paris and studied sculpture with Henri Bouchard and Charles Despiau. In 1930 he returned to Istanbul and the Fine Arts Academy to become an assistant teacher. He visited Paris between 1949 and 1950, after which he ceased to create figural works and instead turned to creating non-figural sculpture. From 1950 until his death in 1971 he worked at the Academy in Istanbul.

Works

  • Adana Monument (1935)
  • Monument to Atatürk (1937)
  • Statue of 16th-century Ottoman admiral Barbarossa in Beşiktaş, Istanbul. (1946 on 400th anniversary of Barbarossa's death)
  • Monument of Atatürk and Ismet Inönü on Horseback in Zonguldak

    • Exhibitions

  • Venice Biennale (1956, 1958)
  • São Paulo Biennial (1957, 1961)
  • Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine at the Musée Rodin, Paris (1961)

    • References

    Ali Hadi Bara Wikipedia
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