Hattat Aziz Efendi [SEP] date of death
Hattat Aziz Efendi
Hattat Aziz Efendi (born 1871, Maçka – August 16, 1934, İstanbul) () was an Ottoman calligrapher.
Life and work.
Born Mehmed Abdulaziz Efendi, in Maçka in 1871, his family moved to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital during Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). Aziz Efendi completed his primary education in 1885 and started to learn calligraphy from Ahmed Arif Effendi of Plovdiv (known more commonly as "Bakkal" -the grocer-) and he also studied at Hat Mektebi (Calligraphy
Mosque of Bursa, Turkey. He transcribed 11 copies of the Quran in his lifetime, a number of hilyas and other textual compilations.
See also.
- Culture of the Ottoman Empire
- Islamic calligraphy
- List of Ottoman calligraphers
- Ottoman art
External links.
- A profile of Hattat Aziz Efendi by Muhittin Serin. (in Turkish)
- Muhittin Serin: "Hattat Aziz Efendi", Istanbul (1988, 1999), ,
- Sâmiha Ayverdi, "İbrâhim Efendi konağı"