İstanbul Kadın Müzesi

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Gallery

Painting

Exhibitions

• 1911Exhibition of the İstanbul Operatic Society
• 1912 Ottoman Painters Society (Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti), solo exhibition organized after the death of Müfide Kadri

Collections with the works of Müfide Kadri

Rezan Has Museum, İstanbul

Müfide Kadri as Teacher

Müfide Kadri is the first female Muslim painting teacher in the Ottoman Empire. She also gave painting lessons in the palace to Aliye Sultan, daughter of Abdülhamid II (Reign 1842-1918).

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Member of Ottoman Painters Society (Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti)

Müfide Kadri started taking private painting lessons at the age of 10. Her teachers were Osman Hamdi Bey (first museum director of the Ottoman Empire), and the painter Halil Paşa. Her oil painting teacher was Salvatore Valeri, a teacher at the Academy of Fıne Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi )

She also took piano, violin, kemenche (a three-string bowed instrument), and lute lessons.

After her death around forty of her works were donated to the Ottoman Painters Society (Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti). The first solo exhibition of Mufide Kadri's works was mounted in 1912 from this collection. The revenue generated was donated to the Ottoman Painters Society.

• Mother: (No information available)
• Father: Kadri Bey
• Niece:Güzin Duran (painter, collector), Rauf Yekta (musician)
• Friends:(No information available)

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• Haşim Nur Gürel, "Our First Female Artist as Art Teacher… On the 95th year of the death of Müfide Kadri Hanım (1890/1912)", sanalmuze.org, http://www.sanalmuze.org/retrospektifeng/view.php?type=1&artid=760
• Esen Karadağ, Cumhuriyet Dönemi kadın sanatçıların resim öğretimindeki rolü, Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2008 http://www.belgeler.com/blg/1g5j/cumhuriyet-donemi-kadin-sanatcilarin-resim-ogretimindeki-rolu-the-role-of-women-artists-in-teaching-art-in-republic-period
• Ayşegül Demirbulak, Çağdaş Türk Resminde Otoportreler, Doktora Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Türk Sanatı Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, 2007, http://www.belgeler.com/blg/15jh/cagdas-turk-resminde-otoportreler-self-portraits-in-contemporary-turkish-art
• Ünver, Süheyl, „İlk Kadın Ressamımız Müfide Kadri". Ankara Sanat, october, 1966, p. 6.

Quoted Sources

• See the "Further Reading" section

Source of Visual Images

• http://www.belgeler.com/blg/2q4r/mufide-kadri

The Women's Museum Istanbul is grateful to Burcu Pelvanoğlu for her support in producing the Müfide Kadri the Müfide Kadri introductory page.