Ali Teoman Germaner (1934 – 23 February 2018), was a
Turkish sculptor. He is also known as AloÅŸ.
Life
He was born in 1934 in
Istanbul
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. Between 1949 and 1954 he was educated in the
Ä°DGSA Sculpture Department in the studios of
Rudolf Belling
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,
Zühtü Müridoğlu and
Ali Hadi Bara. In 1960 he went to Paris with a scholarship from the French government. Between the years 1961 and 1965 he could be found at the École des Beaux-Arts. He studied
sculpture
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in the studio of
René Collamarini
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René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the femini ...
and ''gravür'' in the studio of
W. S. Hayter.
In 1965 he started teaching at the
Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty sculpture department. In 1970 he became a docent, and in 1976 a professor.
After founding the academies ''serigrafi'' and ''gravür'' studio on the graphics department notable artists graduating from this studio became
Alaettin Aksoy, Aydın Ayan, Hüseyin Bilgin,
Gören Bulut, Gül Derman,
Devrim Erbil, Güngör İblikçi, Gündüz Gönlönü,
Mehmet Güler,
Süleyman Saim Tekcan, Zahit Büyükişleyen,
Erol Deneç, Nail Peyza,
Ergin İnan, Utku Varlık, Mustafa Pilevneli,
Hasan Pekmezci, Hayati Misman,
Fevzi Karakoç, Hüsamettin Koçan, Atilla Atar, Ali İsmail Türemen, Kadri Özayten'in.
He died on 23 February 2018.
His burial was at
NakkaÅŸtepe Cemetery.
Art
In Ali Teoman Germaner's wood and bronze sculptures, unreal creatures and supernatural beings appear as products of a fantastic understanding of formation. The aim of creating new opportunities in the free form and free shaping of contemporary sculpture in Türkiye is the main determining factor of these works. There are 6 main figures in his sculptures: human, horse, snake, seashell, spine and incense burner.
Works
Books
* Aloşnâme, YKB Sanat Yayıncılık, 1999 (Sketches).
Awards
* 29. Devlet Resim ve Heykel Sergisi 56456
References
External links
Cumhuriyetimizin 75. Yılında, Ülkemizde "Heykel" Olgusuna Genel Bir BakışHeykelia
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1934 births
2018 deaths
Burials at NakkaÅŸtepe Cemetery
Turkish male sculptors
20th-century Turkish sculptors
Artists from Istanbul
Academic staff of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul alumni