Death is missing The Palestinian plastic artist Ismail Shamout July 3, 2006

On the other hand, the Palestinian visual artist Ismaïl Shamout documents the suffering of the Palestinian people, documents the aspects of life under occupation and is also characterized by drama and contagion, the feeling national and Arab feelings and success of expressionism and professionalism. Reaching his communication And a celebration of money supply and technique.

One of the most famous works of art is the "spring that was" and the "uprooting of Lod", considered one of the best pioneers of the art of plastic Palestinian and founder of the Palestinian fine arts movement.

Born in 1930 in the city of Lod of an average family of 10 years, his father worked in the vegetable sales, he began painting from his youth, encouraged and guided by his teacher. art David Zlatimu who taught him the basics of drawing and sculpture. In 1948, Ismail fled with his family to a refugee camp in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, and his younger brother, Tawfiq Atcha, died during the migration, which caused him to paint a plate. in the 1950s.

In the camp, he worked as a candy seller for a year and then as a volunteer teacher in refugee schools in 1950. He exhibited at Khan Younis school where he sold a painting , encouraging him to attend the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. In 1953, he founded his first art exhibitions in Gaza with the collaboration of his brother Jamil and, in 1954, he organized an exhibition in Cairo with the help of his colleague Akhal and the artist Palestinian Nihad Spasi entitled "Palestinian Refugees".

and received a grant from the Italian government to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he spent two years and then moved to Beirut where he established with his brother a drawing and a commercial poster. Year of the Union of Arab Plastic Artists. He moved with his family to Kuwait after the outbreak of the second Gulf War in 1992. He moved to Cologne, Germany in 1994 and settled in Amman, Jordan. Died on July 3, 2006 in Germany after undergoing cardiac surgery. [19690001] Related Topics