This document provides biographical information on three important Turkish figures: Osman Hamdi Bey, Aşık Veysel, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Osman Hamdi Bey was an influential 19th century Ottoman painter and administrator who studied in Paris and directed the Imperial Museum in Istanbul. Aşık Veysel was a renowned 20th century folk poet and musician who was blind and traveled Anatolia performing. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a contemporary acclaimed Turkish filmmaker known for films focusing on human loneliness and reality.

3. BRIDGES ACROSS CULTURES:
LEADING PERSONALITIES IN ART

4. OSMAN HAMDİ
BEY

5. WAS BORN ON
30 DECEMBER IN
ISTANBUL
1842
Parıs law program,stays ın
parıs for 13 years.
PRIMARY EDUCATION IN
BESIKTAS,ISTANBUL
1860
1851 1873
Governor ın baghdad
Return to ıstanbul,dırectorshıp of
ımperıal museum
1881
Jean gerome leon Goustave boulanger

6. 1910
HIS DEATH ON 24
FEBRUARY 1910 IN
İSTANBUL
School of fıne arts
1883
THE TOrtoıse traıner
1907
1884 1891
1887
Regulatıon of antıquıtıes
Excavatıons:alexandre
sarcophagus-lycıan
sarcophagus ın lebanon
Istanbul Archeology
museum

7. OSMAN HAMDİ’S ART

9. HIS IMPORTANT WORKS
THE TORTOISE TRAINER
THE MERCHANT OF ARMS
GIRL WITH A PINK HAT

12. AŞIK VEYSEL

13. DID YOU KNOW…
•THE BAĞLAMA
• Stringed musical instrument
• A long knecked lute
• Accompanied by bards for severeal centuries in Anatolia.
• Shared by several cultures in Mesopotamie , Anatolie.

14. DID YOU KNOW…
•AŞIK
• A derived Word from Arabic
• Means lover of everything the God created
• Is used for Bards,Folk Poets, Songwriters in Anatolia.
• Anatolian Aşık Tradition in Turkish Literature
is named after that Word
• Became Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu’s nickname and used more than
his surname.
AN AŞIK

15. He was born on 25
October ın sıvas
1894
Marrıage to esma1901
1914
1903
SMALLPOX
BLINDNESS
He started to play
baglama and perform the
works of superıor asıks:
Karacaoğlan
Pir sultan abdal
ruhsati
WORLD WAR I

16. SUCCESSION OF DEATHS:
HIS SON-DAUGHTER-
MOTHER-FATHER
+BETRAYAL OF HIS WIFE
=LONELINESS, MELANCHOLY
1921-1925 1933
1931
AHMET KUTSİ TECER
ORGANIZED THE FEST
OF FOLK POETS
FIRST POEM ABOUT
THE REPUBLIC AND
ATATÜRK
JOURNEY TO ANKARA-
PUBLICATION OF HIS POEM
IN NEWSPAPER
1934

17. 1935 1971
1938
BEGINNING OF
JOURNEY IN THE
COUNTRY
He dıed on 21
march ın sıvas
Return to sivas and began
workıng ın the vıllage
ınstıtutes

18. NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN

19. WAS BORN ON
26 january IN ISTANBUL
1959
boğazİçİ unıversıty,
İstanbul
1977 1995
Cocoon, hıs fırst short fılm
journey to london and
nepal
198
5

20. SMALL TOWN
1997
1999
2002
DISTANT
CLOUDS OF MAY

21. CLIMATES
2006
2008 ONCE UPON A
TIME IN
ANATOLIA
2011THREE MONKEYS
2014
WINTER SLEEP

22. •HIS STYLE: CONCENTRATION ON
HUMAN,REALITY, LONELINESS

23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://www.biyografi.info/kisi/osman-hamdi-bey
• http://www.mymerhaba.com/Osman-Hamdi-Bey-Museologist-in-Turkey-2286.html
• http://www.todayszaman.com/_kocaelis-dead-celebrities-osman-hamdi-bey_264362.html
• http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/43989467/osman-hamdi-bey
• http://www.osmanhamdibey.gov.tr/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%82%C5%9F%C4%B1k_Veysel_%C5%9Eat%C4%B1ro%
C4%9Flu
• http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN,36889/asik-veysel-satiroglu.html
• http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/art-history-osman-hamdi-bey-
archaeology.html

24. • http://www.wikiart.org/en/osman-hamdi
• http://www.alturtle.com/archives/1246
• http://prezi.com/tptnu7qd5hcd/osman-hamdi-bey/
• http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/43989467/osman-
hamdi-bey
• http://www.turkishmusicclub.com/asik_veysel.htm
• http://www.nuribilgeceylan.com/
• http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/master-turkish-cinema-nuri-
bilge-ceylan
• http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27561439
• http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1522