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Birth
1920
Death
1992
Lived/Active
Syrian Arab Republic
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Impressionist and abstract landscape and genre painting, teaching
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Acknowledged as the father of Syrian Impressionism, Nassir Chaura (1920-1992) led an extensive career that
spanned over fifty years and traversed several schools of art. After studying oil painting at the Faculty of
Fine Arts in Cairo, Egypt from 1943-47, he quickly emerged as a prominent artist in the 1950s Damascus art scene
alongside a second generation of pioneers that thrust national art forward.
The leader of the Impressionist
movement until 1964, when he abruptly changed cours (showing 500 of 1329 characters). |
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