After experiencing success as an opera singer in Berlin in the 1930s, she was forced to return to Turkey at the outbreak of the Second World War. A self-taught artist, she began to paint, choosing a style of expressive immediacy with urgent brushwork and brutal formal simplifications. Like pages of an intimate diary, her work tells of her life, her fears, and her great unrequited love for the poet Nâzım Hikmet.
You will receive the Daily 2024, the official magazine of the 81 Venice Film Festival on a daily basis
