Hatem El Mekki (May 16, 1918 – September 23, 2003) was a prominent
Tunisia
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painter. He was born in
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much-larger area of the Residen ...
, and died in
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the cla ...
in 2003.
From 1957, his artwork appeared on a large number of postage stamps of Tunisia. El Mekki drew the head of the coin used in Tunisia from 1988 to 1990.
1918 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Tunisian painters
People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Indonesian emigrants
Immigrants to Tunisia
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