Adnan Turani

Turkey, b.1925-2016

An artist, art historian, and academic. After completing Istanbul Teachers’ School as a primary school teacher, he passed the entrance exams and entered the Ankara Gazi Education Institute, Department of Painting and Crafts in 1945, graduating in 1948. He worked as a painting teacher in teacher training schools and high schools for about five years. With a scholarship he won, he went to Europe in 1953, where he studied with Franz Nagel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Henninger and Willi Baumeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, and Heins Trokes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (1959-70). After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies, he returned to Turkey.