Levni. Turkish Press Broadcasting and Tourist Department.

15 S. Text und 12 Illustr. (auch farbig) auf Tafelseiten; 23,5 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband. Gutes Ex.; Einband etwas berieben; Textseiten gering nachgedunkelt. - Englisch. - Titelblatt von Süheyl Ünver SIGNIERT. - Süheyl Ünver. Professor an der University of Istanbul and The Academy of Fine Arts. - Abdülcelil Levnî, auch Abdülcelil Çelebi, (* im 17. Jahrhundert in Adrianopel, heute Edirne; † 1732 in Konstantinopel) war ein osmanischer Maler. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Maler der Tulpenzeit. Sein Künstlername Levnî leitet sich vom arabischen Wort für Farbe Levn ab. Levnî wurde vermutlich um 1680 in Adrianopel geboren und ging in jungen Jahren nach Konstantinopel, wo er an der Kunstakademie des Topkapi-Palasts Malerei studierte. Unter dem osmanischen Sultan Mustafa II. wurde er leitender Hofmaler und behielt diese Position auch unter Ahmed III. Levnî dokumentierte in seinen Gemälden vor allem das höfische Leben. Mit mehr als 100 Miniatur-Illustrationen bebilderte er den Gedichtband Surname-i Vehbi des osmanischen Dichters Vehbi. Viele seiner Gemälde sind Porträts der Herrscher Mustafa II. und Ahmed III. und ihrer Familien. ... (wiki) // ... The achievements of Levni are not confined to his brilliant work in the fields of Turkish painting and illumination in general; he also added new decorative material to his pictures. The bouquets, the edges, the border -patterns and many of the minute and fine details do not appear in earlier pictures; they are drawn in such a unique way that there is no need for his signature to identify them. There is such a sensitiveness and meticulous-ness in his drawings of the bouquets, the "halkari" 's, and in the harmony of his colours that each of his pictures should be individually studied so that the features of his art, so much his own, can be determined. Just as the famous Turkish musician Itri has created a real Turkish mask out of oriental music, so, in the same way, Levni may be said to have created the Turkish painting in the eighteenth century by achieving an unprecedented reform in the art. It is unfortunate that the works of the artists who come after him are not all preserved, and those that are do not show that his style was followed. Only in the extant works of a contemporary of his, Abdullahilbuhari can one meet with some of the features of Levni's art. In addition to his illustrations to Vehbi's Surname, Levni produced albums in which he depicted the life of the high and the low, fringing each miniature with "aher" papers of various colours. Each of the fringes is of a different colour, one which is fully in harmony with the colour scheme of the picture it borders. … (S. 9)

Malerei; Abdülcelil Levnî; Kunstgeschichte; Biografie