Fateh Moudarres

Fateh al - Moudarres (Arabic فاتح المدرس, DMG Fatih al - Mudarras; * 1922 in Aleppo, Syria, † June 1999 in Damascus, Syria) was a Syrian painter, a pioneer of modern art in his country, writer and sculptor.

Fateh al - Moudarres was born in 1922 in Aleppo, Syria. The early death of his father and the forced departure from his homeland in the north later reflected in many of his works, as well as the deaths of two children. After arriving in Damascus and a self-paced phase with realistic and surrealist influences, Moudarres went to Italy in 1954 and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, he remained there until 1960.

He eventually developed his own style that he himself described as "surrealist and figurative, with a strong abstract element ". Moudarres devoted himself to religious, including Christian themes. He took on mythological and iconographic themes, such as dervishes or the holy city of Jerusalem. But the policy, which caused him many troubles after 1967, was an issue.

Between 1969 and 1972 Moudarres completed his studies in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts before he at the university began his teaching career in Damascus at the College of Fine Arts and numerous young artists influenced.

Moudarres had numerous exhibitions on four continents, including in Germany. He won as an honorary medal at the Biennale 1963 in Sao Paulo, a retrospective honored him in 1995/96 at the Institut du Monde Arab in Paris, some of his literary works have also been published.

The artist died in June 1999. His works achieved 2006 record prices at auctions in the Arab world.