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" I was the first female student in the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts. It was 1921 and at that time in this department there were only three male students.

I prefer to render what I see, and that in the simplest form. I do not copy nature when I render what I see; I add my personal point of view. I have an extraordinary love of nature. I generally work in landscape because it is not possible to express nature in sculpture. Therefore, I satisfy my appetite for nature in painting.

From the standpoint of my temperament, I am not classical or modern. Essentially, style is not in question. What is important is whether artistic values are present or not. The great artists considered to be "modern" worked in classical modes for many years. With regard to the formation of "schools" of art, however many artists there are, there are that many theories. But are not emotion and truthfulness the essential base and foundation of all of them?

In accordance with the reasoning I set forth above, I am an exponent of observation and investigation, not imitation. Art, above all, should be personal."
(Sabiha Bengütaş)
Source: Sabiha Bengütaş web site

Expositions

• 1925Galatasaray Exposition
• 1926 Galatasaray Exposition, Istanbul
• December 1960- January 5th, 1961 Turkish American Society Gallery, personel exhibition

Sabiha Bengitaş is the first woman artist to participate in the Galatasay Exposition.

Sculptures

• Taksim Cumhuriyet statue (with sculptors Pietro Canonica and Hadi Bara), Istanbul
• Statue of Atatürk in the garden of the presidential palace, Çankaya, Ankara
• İnönü statue, Mudanya

Busts

• Abdülhak Hamid
• Ahmet Haşim
• Namık ismail
• Bedia Muvahhit
• Prof. Dr. Akil Muhtar Özden
• Hakkı Şinasi Paşa
• Hikmet Bey
• Ali Fuat Cebesoy
• Mevhibe İnönü
• Hasan Ali Yücel
• Josef Pálenicek
• Aysel Öymen
• Roy Kohler
• Ali İhsan Kalmaz

• 1938 Winner of the Atatürk Sculpture Competition and the İnönü Sculpture Competition

• Primary school: Eyüp Sultan Reşadiye Numune Mektebi (now known as Eyüp Anatolian High School), Istanbul
• French Catholic School, Damascus, Syria
• Köprülü Fuat Pasa School, Büyükada, İstanbul
• 1920 Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Istanbul
• Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Istanbul
• 1924 Academy of Fine Arts, Rome

• Mother:Asime
• Father:Ziya
• Adopted daughter:Nurol Bengütaş
• Marriage: Şakir Emin Bengütaş (diplomat)
• Friends: Pietro Canonica (Heykeltraş), Abdülhak Hamid (yazar, diplomat), Rezzan Yalman (Vatan Gazetesi'nin sahibi)

Web Site in Her Memory

• sabihabengutas.com

Symposium

• Sabiha Bengütaş 1st International Sculpture Symposium, Municipality of Çankaya, Ankara, 14.7.2011.