The Fine Arts Museum, affiliated with the Fine Arts Sector, continues to invite citizens to stay at home, through its official page on Facebook, saying "Stay in your house and we will bring you the museum to your end", in order to tackle the Corona virus, and one of the most important holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts In Alexandria, which can be seen in (Online Museum), the immigrant painting by Youssef Kamel.
Youssef Kamel was born on May 26, 1891 in the Al-Zahir neighborhood of Cairo. He is a photographer from the first generation of Egyptian plastic artists. He is considered the founder of the Egyptian influence style, as he influenced the style of expression, but he did not literally adhere to the European School.
Youssef Kamel was one of the most prolific Egyptian artists, as he reached more than two thousand paintings, whose subjects were from the Egyptian environment, the Egyptian countryside, and the markets of ancient Cairo and its neighborhoods, and he liked the drawing of birds and pets.
He studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Cairo, and completed his studies in Rome. He enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in 1908.
On his return from his government mission in 1959, he worked as a professor of oil painting art at the School of Fine Fine Arts in 1929, and he was the first Egyptian to teach it alongside European professors, then he was appointed head of the painting department, then he became director of the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo in 1948 and 1949, then From 1950 to 1953, he became dean of the Royal College of Fine Arts (now the Faculty of Fine Arts) and the rector of the Fine Arts Committee of the Supreme Council of Arts and Letters. He received the State Appreciation Award for Arts in 1960.
(The most famous stories of struggle in the Egyptian Fine Art)
Youssef is reminded of his entire joint struggle with his colleague Ragheb Ayad to complete their education in Rome, when he sent each other on a mission to Italy at his expense and the other took over his work in Egypt and sent his salary monthly until the other finished the school year, so the other took over the task of his colleague interchangeably. Kamel and Ayyad met the leader of the 1919 revolution, Saad Zaghloul - after returning from exile - and they saluted their struggle. When the first Egyptian parliament convened, the story of their cooperation was presented in 1924, and it was decided to adopt a budget for the painters and sculptors' missions. Youssef Kamel and Ragheb Ayyad were at the head of the first envoys at the state expense to study in Italy, and Youssef Kamel died in Cairo on December 12, 1973.
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