Ercüment Kalmık

Ercüment Kalmık ( 1909 – 1971)

He was born in 1909, graduating from the Fine Arts Academy in 1936. He worked as a teacher at the Technical Teachers School for Girls between 1939 and 1941. He started to work as a lecturer at the Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. He gave lectures at the Berlin Architecture Faculty as a guest professor in 1968, and held chair of basic art education at the Fine Arts Academy (1969). After 1941 he held exhibitions in Türkiye and Italy, Germany and the USA.

He served the world of art with his writings as well as his paintings. Ercüment Kalmık , wrote two books: “Harmony Systems of Colours” and “ Tissue in Nature and Art,” and died in 1971.