Wajih nahle biography
- Wajih Nahlé (in Arabic وجيه نحلة) born in Beirut, Lebanon, was a Lebanese postwar and contemporary master painter, calligrapher and sculpture who has created.
- Wajih Nahle was a Lebanese Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1932.
- Born in February 14, 1932 in Beirut-Sanayeh, he began painting very young, at the age of nine.
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Wajih Nahlé
Prestige issue 266, September 2015
Portraitrubric by Mireille Farès-Bouez
Wajih Nahle photographed in front of one of his paintings in Biel. © Archives Wajih Nahlé
He is one of the big names in Lebanese art known worldwide, his paintings can be found in museums, like the Grand Palais in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tunisia. His creations radiate in notorious buildings, the Palace of Congress Riyadh, at the Dubai World Center, at airports in Jeddah, Riyadh and Bahrain, in the palaces of the Middle East as that of President Rafik Hariri in Saudi Arabia. His unique style, his prolific work, outstanding and universal earned him honors, decorations and great awards in Lebanon and abroad, to begin with that of the Biennale of Alexandria in 1970 to the famous «Abstraction Grand Prix» won at the Louvre Museum in France in 2003. A living monument of art is of course Wajih Nahle, who «dazzles» us with his colors, sculptures and the «energy» emerging from his hundred paintings exhibited at«Beirut Exhibition
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Wajih Nahlé
Lebanese painter (1932–2017)
Wajih Nahlé (وجيه نحلة) | |
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| Born | (1932-02-01)February 1, 1932 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Died | February 21, 2017(2017-02-21) (aged 85) |
| Known for | Painting, calligraphy, sculpture |
| Style | Interest for the decorative aspect of calligraphy |
| Movement | Postwar and contemporary art |
| Awards | Honorary doctorate from the Lebanese American University in Beirut Member of the French Association of International Artists |
Wajih Nahlé (in Arabicوجيه نحلة), (February 1, 1932[1] – February 21, 2017[2]), born in Beirut, Lebanon,[3][4][5] was a Lebanese postwar and contemporary master painter, calligrapher and sculpture who has created new and original forms of expression, a pioneer in his generation. He studied painting in the workshop of the Lebanese painter Moustafa Farroukh.[6] Nahlé's work shows an interest for the decorative aspect of calligraphy.[7]
Career
Wajih Nahle showed his work in more than sixty exhibitions, in Europe as in the arab world,
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Untitled
Lot 77
Wajih Nahlé (1932 - 2017) Follow artist
mixed media on paper
62 x 49 cm
signed W. Nahlé (lower right)
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"Wajih Nahlé was born in Lebanon in 1932, and he died in 2017. He was a Lebanese abstract painter and calligrapher. He studied painting in the workshop of the Lebanese painter Moustafa Farroukh. Nahlé's work displays an interest for the decorative aspect of calligraphy.He held more than
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