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	Ahmed Othman   Personal Data     Fame Name : Ahmed Othman Birth date : 8/7/1907 Date of death : 13/11/1970 Activities : Sculpture     Education   - Graduated from the School of Arts and Decorations (honors), 1927. - Diploma in sculpture from the Art Academy in Rome, 1930. - Ph.D. in sculpture from the Art Academy in Rome, 1932.   Jobs   - Monuments Registrar of at Pennsylvania Mission in Palestine, 1927. - Teacher of sculpture at the Faculty of Applied Arts, from 1933 to 1937. - Head of Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts (for 20 years), from 1937 to 1957. - Expert of antiques and monuments at Kubba Palace and others, 1952. - First Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria, 1957, then retired in 1968. - Director of Leo Nardeo Da Viencie Institute in Cairo, Technical Advisor of the Ministry of Culture, and member of the International Peace Assembly.   Places of interest   - Cairo . - Alexandria . - Italy.   Solo shows   - Memorial Exhibition, 1978.   Local exhibitions   - The Premier Black and White Drawing Salon (Commemorated), at Gezira Arts Center, May 2004. - The First Portrait Salon of Cairo Atelier, September 2005.   International exhibitions   - Paris International Exhibition. - Brussels International Exhibition. - Venice Biennale. - Alexandria International Biennale.   Scholarship   - Official scholarship to Italy, 1928.   Assignment   - Founded Sculpture Department at Turra Prisons to teach prisoners stones sculpture, the matter that set good influence on them. - Established Egyptian Modern Art Museum at the Faculty of Fine Arts. - Decorated passengers station, staged museum and garden of al-Khaledin, established museum of Lassie School and the Naval Museum in Alexandria. - Legend many medals, key of Dakahlya Province, sash of Alexandria, Ain Shams and Cairo universities. - Decorated the Cairo Tower ‘s entrance with huge vulture (Logo of the State). Innovated the transporting way of Abu-Sempel temples.   Local recognition   - Top prize for sculptures (Ahmed Shawky Statue) from Alexandria International Biennale. - Gold medal plus sash of Alexandria Province. - State Merit Prize, 1968 .   State collection   - His art creations among collections of the Egyptian Modern Art Museum in Cairo and Alexandria.   Essays   - Othman belonged to the second generation that effulgence at the second half of the 1930s. He was among leaders of art movement who gained the trust of the state to supervise many projects. Ahmed Othman style distinguished with its Italian taste, while most of his time remarked with French taste, but both were influenced with the Pharaohnic Art that grasped attention after 1919 Revolution until the end of Second World War. - Chronicling the Egyptian Modern Art, we must mention the sculptor Ahmed Othman who strongly famed from the thirties to the sixties era, when he was master of many Egyptian sculptors. - Othman managed to achieve the balance between the academic style in sculpture and the hereditary and folk style, so most of his works masterly sculptured. Inflamed with his ambitious and belief in sculpture as a curable medium for many deviations, he produced efficient sculptures, represented national, social or memorial issues.
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