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Halim Jurdak, (1927-2020)
Color etching and engraving
Hand signed 'H. Jurdak' and numbered 3/15 and marked 'E. A.' in pencil on on lower margin. Frame, approx. 23 1/4" x 15 1/2". Plate size, approx. 10" x 8 1/2".
This might be an aquatint or it might have hand applied watercolor painting.
Halim Jurdak, Lebanese Artist. (1927-2020)
Born in 1927 in Ain El Sindianeh, (Shoueir) Matn, North Lebanon, Halim Jurdak began his artistic training at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Art in 1953. He is the first Lebanese artist to work in the medium of etching and engraving on an equal footing with painting and drawing. His work has won many prizes, including the first prize for Engraving at the Annual Exhibition of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He has participated in numerous international and regional exhibitions and began teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1966. This work bears the influence of Stanley William Hayter and the Atelier 17
Jurdak began his artistic training at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Art in 1953 and went on to receive his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts” in Paris. He attended the Atelier Brianchon pour la peinture, et Atelier Cami et Bercier pour la gravure. He also frequented l’atelier of Surrealist Henri Bernard Goetz and l’atelier Yves Brayer at the Académie de la grande Chaumière. He also studied at L’Académie Andre Lhote.
He travelled extensively, visiting Munich, Stuttgart, Basel, Dornoch, London, Bruges, Rome, Athens, Quebec, Montreal, Los Angles, Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. Made contacts with artists and galleries and showed regularly. He also began making abstract sculpture.
Select Solo Exhibitions
1959: Alumni Club of the American University of Beirut.
1961: The hall of Rudolf Steiner House in Stuttgart – Germany.
1962: Gallery Maison des Beaux-Arts Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
1963: «Gallery Triades Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris.
1963: «Gallery Michel Harmouche Starko Center, Beirut.
1970: House of Art and Literature (Dar El Fan Wal Adeb), Beirut.
1987: Gallery Janine Rubeiz, Beirut.
1991: The hall of Goethe Institute , Beirut.
2002: Studio – Gallery of the painter George Khayralla, El – Mtayn – Lebanon.
2009: Mar Mikhael, Bikfaya, Lebanon.
Represented Lebanon at the following Art Festivals and Exhibitions:
1967: Exhibition of Peintres-Graveurs de l’Ecole de Paris organized by Brigitte Chehadeh, in honor of the late French painter George Cyr who lived in Beirut. The exhibition included works for the following artists: Antoni Clavé, Massimo Campigli, Marcel Fiorini, James Guitet, Aurelien Ortega,
Pierre Louis Maurice Courtin, Marino Marini, Arthur Luiz Piza, Kumi Sugai, Johnny Friedlander, Ossip Zadkine and Amedeo Modigliani.
1974: Festival International de la Jeunesse Francophone in the city of Quebec - Canada.
1994: Exhibition of The love encounter of the Arab Plastic Artists in the city of Latakia under the patronage of the syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud El Zuoubi and Madame Najat El Attar Minister of culture. From each Arab Country, one artist was chosen for this encounter.
Arabic Biennales and Exhibitions:
1967: Arab Art Exhibition organized by the British company for tobacco Eight paintings were chosen for eight artists belonging to each of the following arab countries: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Irak, Kuwait, Bahrain and Egypt. The exhibition took place successively in London, Paris, Rome, Cairo, Manameh, Amman, Kuwait, Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut.
Jurdak’s style has evolved greatly over his long career, from academic realism to cubism, from figurative abstraction, to non-figurative abstraction, in which he focused on forms, patterns, colour and composition. His most recent works have centered on the elemental qualities of the human figure. Jurdak has written numerous artistic and literary articles and has written several books on art theory, including The Metamorphosis of Line and Colour in 1975 (dealing with the psychological reasons underlying modern and contemporary fine art movements) and The Eye of Contentment, published in 1995. His work is held in many private and public collections such as the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts” - UNESCO Palace, Beirut; King Khaled collection of Islamic art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and AUB, Beirut.
He is included in Arab Print volume IV, Showcasing a variety of techniques such lithography, etching, engraving and photogravure, included are works by Shafic Abboud, Etel Adnan, Huguette Caland, Halim Jurdak, Hussein Madi and Mohamed El Rawas.
- Creator:Halim Jurdak (1927)
- Dimensions:Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 23.25 in (59.06 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
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