M'hamed Issiakhem
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| Born | 17 June 1928 Azeffoun, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria |
| Died | 1 December 1985 (aged 57) Algiers, Algeria |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | Fan Site |
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M'hamed Issiakhem (17 June 1928 – 1 December 1985) is one of the founders of the modern Algerian painting.
Biography
M'hamed Issiakhem born on 17 June 1928 in Taboudoucht, a small village near
In 1962, Issiakhem returned to Algeria, where he was the cartoonist of the daily Alger Republicain. In 1963 he was one of the founding member of the National Union of Plastic Arts. From 1964 to 1966 he was head of painting workshop at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, counting among his pupils Ksenia Milicevic, then director at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Oran.
From 1965 to 1982 he created models of the Algerian bank notes as well as many Algerians stamps.
He traveled to Vietnam in 1972 and in 1973 received a gold medal at the International Fair of Algiers for his work on the stand of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
From 1973 to 1978 Issiakhem returned to caricatures. In 1977 he ran the realization of a fresco at the Algiers Airport. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs published a brochure in Algiers which Kateb Yacine wrote the preface under the title Issiakhem's lynx Eyes and Americans, thirty-five years of hell of a painter. Issiakhem received in 1980 the first Golden Lion of Rome, of the UNESCO for African Art. He died on 1 December 1985 following a long illness.
Tribute
On 17 June 2018, Google Doodle commemorated Issiakhem's 90th birthday.[1][2]
References
- ^ "M'hamed Issiakhem's 90th Birthday". Google.
- ^ "Google rend hommage au peintre algérien M'hamed Issiakhem". algeriepatriotique (in French). 17 June 2018.
External links
Bibliography
- Acheur Cheurfi, Bibliographical Dictionary of Algeria
- Médiène, Benamar. M'hamed Issiakhem : ma main au feu-- portrait à l'encre. Alger : Casbah Éditions, 2022 (ISBN 9789947623299)
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