Ayetullah Sümer

Ayetullah Sümer (1905-1979)
Sümer, born in 1905 in İzmir, attended primary and secondary school there and later studied at the Marseilles Commercial School from 1925 to 1928. At the same time he continued at the Chephile Berengier Studio, then went to Paris to study and worked at the P. Baudovin Studio. During this period, he won a silver medal in a competition he participated in.

Ayetullah Sümer worked as a lecturer at the State Fine Art Academy, and is one of Türkiye’s finest impressionists. Sümer lent works to many joint exhibitions both inside and outside Türkiye, and organized several personal exhibitions. Many of his works are in state and private collections, especially at the Painting and Sculpture Museum. The composition “Typewriter,” displayed in 1934 at the Galatasaray Exhibiton, was a particularly thrilling work of his. He died in 1979.