The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a Turkish

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universi ...

dedicated to higher education in the fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighbourhood of

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, Turkey. Founded in 1882 by

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, the institution imitated the traditional European Beaux-Arts model and was the first Western-style art academy of its kind in the Middle East. The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts High Schools in

and

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have no relation with the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

History

On January 1, 1882, he renowned Turkish painter, art historian, archaeologist, and museum curator,

established the School of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mekteb-i Âlisi, formally Mekteb-i Sanayi-i Nefise-i Şâhâne or Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi) here. When it opened on March 2, 1883, with eight instructors and 20 students, it was Turkey's first educational institution for the fine arts and architecture. In 1914, the school became co-educational. In 1928 it was converted from a school to an academy - the first in Turkey - and its name was changed to the State Academy of the Fine Arts (Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi). In 1969, it was renamed as the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi, or İDGSA), and gained administrative autonomy according to Law No. 1172 on Fine Arts Academies in Turkey. On July 20, 1982, its status was changed again, and the academy became Mimar Sinan University"(Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi) in memory of the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. Finally, in December 2003, the administration of the university changed its name to the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Since 1982 the institution has been providing four-year educational programmes.

Building

The building that houses what is now the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University started life in 1856 as the twin palaces of Münire Sultan and

Cemile Sultan Cemile Sultan ( ota, جمیله سلطان; "''beautiful, radiant''"; 17 August 1843 – 26 February 1915) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Düzdidil Hanım. She was the half sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hami ...

, the daughters of

Sultan Abdülmecid Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the r ...

. They were used for meetings of the

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between 1910 and 1920.

Basic Design Education Division

Following the Academy Reform and a student occupation in 1968, Basic Design Education (''Temel Sanat Eğitimi'') was incorporated into the curriculum in 1969. The Basic Design Education Division was critical of the master-apprentice model and aimed to blur the distinction between handicrafts and

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...

s. The co-founders of this division included Altan Gürman, Ercümend Kalmık, Ali Teoman Germaner, Erkal Güngören, Özer Kabaş, and Nuri Temizsoylu, who wanted to create a

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...

-inspired model to enable consistency and continuity in the education that first-year students received. This model aimed at encouraging students to explore, question and analyse different techniques, tools, and materials related to arts and design. Following the 1980 coup d'état in Turkey, the administration and autonomy of universities changed, and Basic Design Education was removed from the curriculum in 1982.

Academic units

* Faculty of natural sciences and literature (

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts ...

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

statistics Statistics (from German: '' Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, indust ...

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

history of art The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetics, ae ...

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

, Turkish

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

and

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

) * Faculty of fine arts (

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...

, traditional Turkish

handicraft A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscip ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

stage design Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trai ...

and

stage clothes Stage clothes is a term for any clothes used by performers on stage. The term is sometimes used only for those clothes which are specially made for the stage performance by a costume designer or picked out by a costume coordinator. Theatrical ...

, ceramics art and

glass art Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including gla ...

, cinema and TV, textile design and

fashion design Fashion design is the Art (skill), art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its Fashion accessory, accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and plac ...

bookbinding Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of ''signatures'', sheets of paper folded together into sections that are bound, along one edge, with a thick needle and strong thread. Cheaper, b ...

tilework Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or ...

restoration,

calligraphy Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined ...

, rug and old textile design), Restoration and Conservation of art works (Painting and Sculpture) * Faculty of Architecture (

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufactu ...

, interior architecture,

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

and regional planning) * Istanbul State Conservatory (full-time and part-time) / (

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perfo ...

) * Vocational School (textile design, architectural restoration) * Institute of Natural Sciences * Institute of Social Sciences * Institute of Fine Arts * School of Informatics

Associated institutions

* Tophane Kasrı
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

Tophane-i Amire Cultural Center

Notable faculty

–painter, art historian, and archaeologist * Yervant Osgan–sculptor *

İbrahim Çallı İbrahim Çallı (13 July 1882 in Çal – 22 May 1960 in İstanbul) was a Turkish painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim. Biography İbrahim Çallı was born in Çal, Denizli. He showed early interest in painting during his primary ...

–painter *

Filiz Ali Filiz Ali (born 30 September 1937) is a Turkish pianist and musicologist. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Music in Ankara. Graduating from Ferhunde Erkin's class in 1958, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the Un ...

–pianist and musicologist *

Rudolf Belling Rudolf Belling (26 August 1886 – 9 June 1972) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Artistic theories At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Bell ...

–German sculptor *

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning ''Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interest in photography star ...

–film director, screenwriter, and photographer * Adnan Coker–painter * Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu–painter and poet *

Nazmi Ziya Güran Nazmi Ziya Güran (1881 – 11 September 1937) was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art teacher. Biography He was born in Istanbul. His father was a civil servant. He attended Vefa Lisesi, Turkey's first non-military high school,

–painter *

Bruno Taut Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian). He was active during the Weimar period and is kno ...

–German architect *

Alexander Vallaury Alexander Vallaury (1850–1921) was a French- Ottoman architect, who founded architectural education and lectured in the School of Fine Arts in Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire. Biography Vallaury was born in 1850 into a Levantine fa ...

–French architect *

Robert Vorhoelzer Robert Vorhoelzer (13 June 1884 – 23 October 1954) was a German architect. Vorhoelzer belonged to the classical modernist school of architecture that is otherwise rather underrepresented in Bavaria. Most of his works were built when Vorhoel ...

–German architect and city planner *

Ali Teoman Germaner Ali Teoman Germaner (1934 – 23 February 2018), was a Turkish sculptor. He is also known as Aloş. Life He was born in 1934 in İstanbul. Between 1949 and 1954 he was educated in the İDGSA Sculpture Department in the studios of Rudolf Bell ...

–sculptor *

Hande Erçel Hande Erçel (born 24 November 1993) is a Turkish actress, best known for Gunesin Kizlari, Ask Laftan Anlamaz, Halka and Sen Çal Kapimi. Career Hande Erçel starred in the series '' Aşk Laftan Anlamaz'' (2016–2017) as Hayat Uzun, opposite ...

- Turkish actress and model * Neşe Aybey - miniaturist * Hüseyin Tahirzade Behzat - miniaturist

Notable alumni

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University - Entrance

Actors and models

* Okan Bayülgen–actor and television personality *

–actress and model *

Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu (born c. 1960) is a Turkish ballet dancer and a former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1982. Biography She was educated in ballet dancing at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. She danced in ...

–ballet dancer and Miss Turkey 1982 * Tuba Büyüküstün–actress and model *

Halit Ergenç Halit Ergenç (; born 30 April 1970) is a Turkish actor known for his role as Sultan Suleiman I in ''Muhteşem Yüzyıl,'' Onur Aksal in ''Binbir Gece'' and Cevdet in ''Vatanim Sensin''. Biography Halit Ergenç was born as the son of Yeşil ...

–actor * Nejat İşler–actor * Sarp Akkaya-actor

Artists

* Maide Arel – Armenian-Turkish painter, graduated in 1935. * Akbar Behkalam–German-Iranian painter and sculptor * Sinem Banna–Turkish-American Sculptor * Adnan Coker–painter *

Nevin Çokay Nevin Çokay (born 1930-July 24, 2012) was a Turkish painter and high school teacher of art and history of art. Life Çokay was born in Istanbul, and spent her childhood in different regions of Turkey. In 1947, she started to attend to the stu ...

–painter *

Nur Koçak Nur Koçak is a contemporary feminist Turkish artist who was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1941. She is most well known for her works that comment on women's objectification in consumerist societies. She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Educat ...

–artist *

Maya Kulenovic Maya Kulenovic is a Canadian artist and painter. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and exhibits internationally. Biography Kulenovic was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. She studied at Ontari ...

– Canadian painter (student from 1992 to 1995) * Elif Naci, painter * Erinç Seymen–Turkish artist * Sevil Soyer–painter and interdisciplinary artist

Musicians

* Burak Bilgili–opera singer *

Yonca Evcimik Fatma Yonca Evcimik (born 16 September 1963) is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Biography Evcimik studied dance and ballet at the Academy of Music at Mimar Sinan University The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel S ...

–pop singer

Other

* Kutluğ Ataman–film director *

Pınar Selek Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971) is a Turkish sociologist, feminist, and author. She is known for her work on the rights of vulnerable communities in Turkey, including women, the poor, street children, sexual minorities, and Kurdish communi ...

–sociologist and human rights activist *

Galip Tekin Galip Tekin (20 April 1958 – 6 July 2017) was a Turkish comic book artist, cartoonist and screenwriter. He was known for his works in the fantasy and science fiction genres. His style is often compared to that of Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. Biograp ...

–comic book artist

References

External links

University's official website

Mimar Sinan

Mimar Sinan Students Portal
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History

Building

Basic Design Education Division

Academic units

Associated institutions

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Actors and models

Artists

Musicians

Other

See also

References

External links