El Hussein Fawzi

El Hussein Fawzi;Hussein Fawzi

Place: Helmia District

Born: 1905

Biography:

Hussein Fawzi, also known as El Hussein Fawzi, was born in Helmia district, Cairo on September 4, 1905. He was a renowned Egyptian artist and professor, known for his pioneering work in the field of journalistic graphic arts. Fawzi began his artistic studies in 1922 at the School of Fine Arts, studying oil painting. In 1928, he won the first prize at an art competition and received an art fellowship at the printing school in Paris, followed by his lithography diploma in 1932. He also studied lithography at the Estienne School in Paris. Fawzi was an artist and professor of oil painting before joining the Paris Higher School of Arts and Decoration from which he received a diploma in 1933. He was awarded an honorary degree for an oil painting exhibited at the 1939 French Salon. Although Fawzi was recognized as a graphic artist, he was also an accomplished painter in the classical sense. Upon his return to Egypt, he founded the Department of Graphic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and later was appointed director of the department, a position he held until his retirement. He also supervised the studio of fine arts in Luxor from 1954 to 1960. Throughout his career, Fawzi was the recipient of several awards, including the State Prize and Order of Sciences and Arts (1963), the Lithography prize at the Alexandria Biennale (1963) and the State Prize of Merit (1989). Fawzi generated multiple illustrations for stories written by Naguib Mahfouz which were published in Al Ahram newspaper; he also documented (in watercolour and drawings) many of the large mosques of Egypt; these works were published across two volumes. Fawzi's most renowned painting El Dalalah is considered to be one of the most important Egyptian paintings of the 20th century.

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