Nurullah Berk

Nurullah Berk (1906 – 1982)

He was born in 1906 in İstanbul. After graduating from Galatasaray High School he entered the Sanayi-i Nefise. He was trained at Hikmet Onat and İbrahim Callı’s studios and graduated in 1924. Afterwards he went to Paris and became a student of Ernest Laurant at the Paris Fine Arts Academy. After returning to Türkiye, he established the “Individual Painters’ and Sculptors’ Association” with his friends. He became a lecturer at the Istanbul Fine Arts Academy in 1939 and was appointed director of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in 1962 He held many exhibitions and won various awards. His best-known works are; “Still life with Playing Cards,” “Woman Ironing,” “The Tailor”, “The Concubine” and “Thorns”. He died in 1982.