Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly ( ar, محمد سيف الدين اسماعيل محمد وانلي), most commonly referred to simply as Seif Wanly () (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian

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Early life and career

Wanly was born in

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, in 1906 into an aristocratic family of

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origin. He introduced

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to Egypt after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother

Adham Wanly Adham Wanly ( ar, إبراهيم أدهم إسماعيل محمد وانلي) (25 February 1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 20 December 1959) was an Alexandrian painter who learnt in the atelier An atelier () is the private workshop o ...

and together they participated in more than 17 exhibitions, notably in the

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and in São Paulo, Brazil. In the late 1950s, Wanly travelled to Nubia to produce a series of paintings and drawings portraying life in Upper Egypt for a governmental project to document culture and conditions prior to the relocation that occurred to enable construction of the Aswan High Dam. Today an entire floor of the Mahmoud Said Museum in Alexandria is dedicated to Seif and Adham Wanly. His work is collected by several Museums, including Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Darat AL Funoon in Amman, and the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah.

Personal life

He died in 1979 at Stockholm at age of 72.

Commemorations

In 2015,

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commemorated his 109th birthday.

References

1906 births 1979 deaths 20th-century Egyptian painters Egyptian people of Turkish descent Egyptian emigrants to Sweden {{Egypt-painter-stub