(Istanbul, 17 September 1886 (1302) - Istanbul, 6 May 1970)

He entered Galatasaray Sultanisi in 1895, finished the sixth grade in 1908 and started working life. First, he entered Bab-ı Âli as a clerk. In the same year, he started teaching calligraphy at Galatasaray Sultanisi. Tevfik Fikret, the school's teachers Viçen Arslanyan Efendi and Şevket Dağ realized Feyhaman's talent and attempted to send him to Paris to study.

Abbas Halim Pasha, whom he met by chance, undertook his education in 1910 and sent him to Paris to study painting. In 1911, he continued his studies with Paul Richet, an anatomy teacher at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, and with Jean Paul Laurens and Albert Laurens at the Academy Julien. In 1912 he went to the Paris School of Decorative Arts. In 1913-1914, he continued to Cormon's Atelier in Paris National Academy of Fine Arts (Academie des Beaux-Arts) for a year. In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to Istanbul. prof. Dr. He met Akil Muhtar and made his portraits. He participated in the 1st Galatasaray Exhibition in 1916;

“Dr. He won the silver medal and the "Zikr-i Cemil (Commemoration of Beauty)" Award with his work "Portrait of Akil Muhtar".

On his return to Paris, he worked and painted war pictures in the Harp Magazine. He participated in the exhibitions of the Ottoman Society of Painters and gave painting lessons at the Zuhal Stationery Store in Vezneciler with İbrahim Çallı and Sami Yetik.

Feyhaman Duran, portrait of Atatürk, 1937

On December 2, 1919, he was appointed to the Inas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi as a teacher of "Usul-ü reverse". He was among the founders of the Fine Arts Union and served as a board member until his death.

He married one of his students, Guzin Hanım, in 1922. After the unification of the Girls' and Boys' Schools of Fine Arts, he was appointed as the teacher of the "Usul-ü reverse" and painting workshop in 1933 at the Sanayi-i Nefise School on June 1, 1927.

In 1938, he was sent to Gaziantep as part of the Country Trips organized by the Republican People's Party, and he returned with ten paintings. In January 1939, Çallı and Ayatollah Sümer were invited to Ankara to paint İnönü's portrait together.

Between 1943-1947, she painted with her husband in the interior and exterior of the Topkapı Palace Museum. He retired in 1951.

He continued his work in his house in Beyazıt in his retirement. This museum donated the house to Istanbul University. He belonged to the generation considered the 1914 impressionists. Besides portraits, he painted landscape and interior paintings. He was interested in miniature and calligraphy and experimented with calligraphy.

Source:  www.turkishpaintings.com

Other Atatürk Works of the Artist