Map of Galata | Old Galata and it's Buildings

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Celal Esad Arseven[1]
Old Galata and it's Buildings.


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[1] Celal Esat Arseven (1876 - 1972) Turkish art professor and historian.


Born the son of a pasha in Istanbul, Celal Esat Arseven was graduated from the Beşiktas Military School in 1888 and studied drawing at a fine arts school for a year before going to the war college. He continued writing and painting while in the army, from which he resigned in 1908. In the years before World War I, he worked at the humor magazine Kalem with Cemil Cem, one of the great early caricaturists of Turkey.


Arseven was a writer and artist of diverse talents. In 1918, he wrote a libretto for one of the first Turkish operas and went on to write several musical plays performed at the Istanbul municipal and state theaters. In addition to being an accomplished watercolorist, he was also a professor of architecture and municipal planning at the Istanbul Fine Arts Academy from 1924 to 1941. He published a five-volume art encyclopedia between 1943 and 1954 and many books on Turkish painting and architecture during his lifetime. Before his death, he was awarded a doctoral degree by Istanbul University. He was also a delegate to the Turkish Grand National Assembly during its seventh and eighth sessions.


Bibliography


And, Metin. "Opera and Ballet in Modern Turkey." In The Transformation of Turkish Culture: The Atatürk Legacy, edited by Günsel Renda and C. Max Kortepeter. Princeton, NJ: Kingston Press, 1986.