Mürşide İçmeli

Who is Mürşide İçmeli (1930 Istanbul -2014 Ankara)

He opened more than forty personal exhibitions; He is an artist who has exhibited his engravings in 24 international biennials and whose works have been awarded many awards. His art was influenced by the Hittite, Seljuk and archaic civilizations in Anatolia. He worked as a faculty member at Gazi Education Institute and Bilkent University Graphics Department.

He was born in Istanbul in 1930. She started her painting studies in 1947 at the Istanbul Çapa Girls’ Primary School painting seminar. After the seminar closed at the end of the year, she continued her education at Bursa and Konya Primary Schools for Girls. She graduated from the Painting Department of Ankara Gazi Education Institute, which she entered with an aptitude test in 1950, as an art teacher in 1953.

After working as an art teacher at Afyon High School for a while, she entered Ankara Gazi Education Institute as a graphic assistant in 1959. He went to Madrid in 1960 with a government scholarship to do research, analysis and specialization in original printmaking. He attended the engraving workshop of the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts and the lithography workshop of the National School of Fine Arts.

One year after returning home, in 1962, she was sent to London to study graphic arts. She majored in Illustration at the Graphic Arts Department of Central School Art and Design. When he returned home in 1965, he started working as a Graphic Arts Teacher in the Painting and Crafts Department of Gazi Education Institute. Mürşide İçmeli, who continued in this position until 1986, held her first personal exhibition in 1976.