Artist: Faik Hassan (1914 - 1992)
Nationality: Iraqi
Movement: Modern Iraqi School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Faik Hassan was given a scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and graduated in 1938. While in France, Hassan came across the work of the Cubists and Impressionists, but also studied traditional forms of landscapes and genre subjects. He returned to his alma mater in Baghdad to head the painting and sculpture department after graduation. He also established the Pioneers Group in 1950 and the Corners Group in 1962, the latter’s goal being to focus on social and political issues. He created the mosaic titled Celebration of Victory in Tiran Square when Iraq became a republic. Hassan continued painting in the Impressionist style at the end of his career.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (18)
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Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer Mosque El Hassan Etching-drypoin 1895
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La Grande Porte de la mosquée El Hassan au Caire (19e siècle) by CABANES Louis
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La Lecture du Coran dans la mosquée El Hassan au Caire (19e siècle) by CABANES Louis
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Paysage des abords du Nil : Beni Hassan, village abandonné (1854 en) by CRAPELET Louis Amable
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Louis Haghe Entrance to the Caves of Beni Hassan - Egypt lithograph 19th century
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Louis Haghe Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo - Egypt Lithograph 19th century
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Louis Haghe Grand Entrance to the Mosque of the Sultan Hassan - Egypt Lithograph 19th century
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Louis Haghe Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo - Egypt lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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Louis Haghe Entrance to the Caves of Beni Hassan - Egypt lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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David Roberts Interior of the Mosque of the Sultan Hassan, plate 220 in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by William Brockedon (London: Day & Son, 1856), vol. 6, Egypt and Nubia, [bound with The Holy Land, with historical notes by W
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Louis Haghe Mosque of Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Square of the Rameyleh - Egypt Lithograph 19th century
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David Roberts Grand Entrance to the Mosque of the Sultan Hassan, plate 234 in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by William Brockedon (London: Day & Son, 1856), vol. 6, Egypt and Nubia, [bound with The Holy Land, with historical note
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David Roberts Entrance to the Caves of Beni-Hassan, plate 166 in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by William Brockedon (London: Day & Son, 1855), vol. 4, Egypt and Nubia, [bound with The Holy Land, with historical notes by George Crol
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David Roberts Mosque of the Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rumeyleh, plate 250 in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by William Brockedon (London: Day & Son, 1856), vol. 6, Egypt and Nubia, [bound with The Holy Land, wit
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Louis Haghe Grand Entrance to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo - Egypt lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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Louis Haghe Mosque of the Sultan Hassan from the Great Square of the Rameyleh - Egypt lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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RĂ©ception par le grand Turc de l'ambassadeur Choiseul by MOREAU Jean Michel
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Le Chameau. / L'Eléphant. / Le Daim. / La Giraffe. (titre inscrit) (1840 entre ; 1851 et) by LEDOYEN (éditeur)

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (19)
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Gasworks Gallery: Hassan Khan: Kompressor
Using a compellingly striking and visceral visual language, Khan utilises audio-visual means to produce highly experiential settings to assimilate the work, often allowing visitors a space to open personal associations of the subject matters in qu...
DaimlerChrysler: SA ARTIST PREPARES FOR INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES
The international exhibition, which will be followed by a countrywide exhibition in South Africa, forms part of the award prize, which is valued at R300 000. Kay also received a R10 000 cash prize, the creation of a glossy full-colour portfoli...
Hassan Museum: Fez Fez: Fabrizio Plessi
The installation, presented on the occasion of the exhibition held in Berlin in 1994, is part of a cycle of works dedicated to the cities visited by Plessi, who likes to define himself as an untiring traveller, to recreate evocative environments...
DaimlerChrysler: DaimlerChrysler Award South African Contemporary Art 2000
PThe jury members are all experts in their respective fields and include Okwui Enwezor (New York/Berlin), art director of Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany; Dr Martin Hentschel, director of the Württemberg Art Society, Stuttgart; Marilyn Martin, di...
secession: WALTER OBHOLZER, ROZA EL-HASSAN
In his 1992 essay on the conceptual in Austrian contemporary art, Markus Brüderlin stated that not only had a genuine extension of Duchamp’s idea of art taken place in Vienna, but also that the idea of art as context had been processed on a formal...
Hungarian Cultural Center: Random Utterness 2: Mara Bodis-Wollner, Andras Borocz, Andrea Dezso, Shandor Hassan, Thomas Lendvai, Anna Pasztor and Tamas Revesz
Anna Pasztor’s video, Why didn’t you trust me?, reflects her interest in dance, movement and choreography. The rhythm of New York and the pace of female bodies create a visual and physical montage, both contrasting and connecting the bodies and th...
Glenbow: 2001: An Art Odyssey
Explore the diversity of contemporary art, with works ranging from paintings to video work; from mail art to internet-based work; from sculpture to a work made from honeycomb and beeswax. The exhibition features over 30 artists, including a wi...
Budapest Kunsthalle: Vision Image and Perception
Works on view within the contemporary art section include those by: Rosa Barba, Balázs Beöthy, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Miklós Bölcskey, Mária Chilf, Attila Csörgő, Hans H. Diebner - Sven Sahle, Róza El-Hassan, Miklós Erdély, Roland Farkas, Harun...
House of World Cultures: DisORIENTation: Contemporary Artistic Productions from the Near East
Is there such a thing as contemporary Arab art? What does the term Arab mean to us today? How severely have the attacks of 11 September shaken our perception of the Arab world? The DisORIENTation exhibition examines old and current views of the ...
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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Some Stories: Women artists from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey
Identities shift in culture clashes, the translation between Arabic and Western languages and world pictures proves difficult. Women must confront the projections with which they are denounced by both East and West and must find their place betw...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: West by East: Curated by Abdelwahab Meddeb
West by East is an exhibition about how Westerners, Europeans in particular, have been seen, past and present, by the Islamic East. During the preparation of the exhibition, it very soon became evident that historically, Easterners have paid a lot...
BildMuseet: Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo
Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo presents six artists living and working in Cairo: Sherif El-Azma – Anna Boghiguian – Golo – Hassan Khan – Hani Rashed – Randa Shaath. For the majority of the artists, it is their first engagement with a Nor...
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art
Yasmin Canvin, guest curator, brings her family experience to the exhibition. Her father was seven years old in 1947. A Muslim family, they were living in what became the Indian section of Punjab. Yasmin's grandfather decided to sell up and move t...
Thomas Erben Gallery: Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: The Hair or the Man, Blink
On view will be "The Hair or the Man" and "Blink", two single-screen video projections, as well as two series of b/w photographs. "Niggers are Scared of Revolution" a song by Umar Bin Hassan opens "Hair" and continues throughout interspersed wit...
Istanbul Biennial: 8th Istanbul Biennial: Curated by Dan Cameron of New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York
The artistic framework of the 8th International Istanbul Biennial is formed around the concept of Poetic Justice. In proposing this phrase as the basis for a sustained investigation into the latest developments in contemporary art, the exhibiti...
ARCO 2002: ARCO'02
Exhaustive analyses have already been made of the problematic relationship that the more economically developed countries or social groups have maintained with other cultural expressions, to reach the conclusion that not only were artistic experie...
House of World Cultures: Translated Acts: Body and Performance Art from East Asia, in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art, New York
The Korean Yu Yeon Kim will hold the first exhibition Translated Acts: Body and Performance Art from East Asia: The internationally renowned curator, in her exhibition at the House of World Cultures, will present multimedia works by twentyeight...
House of World Cultures: Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists
The artists living outside Iran have received these impulses as a challenge. But in the midst of all, their artistic language creates distance through irony, sarcasm and humour. This tension has created that reflexivity which we call Far Near Dist...

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