Jamal Qutb Ali
Personal data
Nickname: Jamal Qutb
Date of birth: 1/10/1930
Birthplace: West
Date of death: 10/16/2016
Specialization: photography
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school grade
- Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography.
Jobs and occupations undertaken by the artist
- He worked as a painter at Dar Al-Hilal Foundation while he was still a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, then became the first illustrator for Dar Al-Hilal magazines after his graduation.
- Worked as a technical advisor to Dar Al-Hilal Foundation.
- He worked as a lecturer at Qatar University and an art expert there.
- He is currently working as a professor of artistic appreciation and art history at the Academy of Arts in Cairo.
The places where the artist lived
- Cairo, Gharbia (Tanta).
- Qatar (Doha), Saudi Arabia.
Special exhibitions
- Special exhibitions of his works were held in Cairo and the regions on various national occasions.
- An exhibition entitled (The Creative Touch in Culture, Journalism and Media) at the Egyptian Cultural Office in Tokyo, July 2007.
- An exhibition entitled (Creative Touch in Culture, Journalism and Media) at the Egyptian Cultural Office in Paris 2007.
Local group exhibitions
- Press Drawings Exhibition, first session, Palace of Arts (honourees), 2004.
The First Cairo Atelier Portrait Salon, Cairo Atelier, September 2005.
- Atelier Salon (fifty-seventh), Cairo Atelier, September 2009.
- Exhibition (Immortal Creators) at Diya Gallery, Mohandessin, September 2018.
- An exhibition entitled (Mally Fat Teams) at Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center - House of the Nation Museum - December 2019.
- The third exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections) at the (Dhi) Gallery of Arts and Culture in Mohandessin, May 2021.
- Exhibition (Generations) at (Hala Art Gallery) in Nasr City, September 2021.
- An exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections), the fourth in the (Dhi) Gallery of Arts and Culture in Mohandessin, June 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (Creative Immortals) at (Dhaa) Gallery of Culture and Arts in Zamalek and Mohandessin, September 2022.
- An exhibition entitled (Arabic Selections 2023) at the (Dhi) Gallery for Arts and Culture in Mohandessin and Zamalek, July 2023.
International group exhibitions / overseas fairs
The 11th Forum of Imprints of Arab Plastic Artists - Cairo Anneliese - July 2016.
Technical visits
- He made many field visits to study many of the western and eastern capitals.
Technical tasks assigned to him and general contributions
In 1976 and 1977, he was commissioned to complete historical paintings for the King Abdul Aziz House Museum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- He was assigned to set up the Heritage Museum in Doha, Qatar.
- He established the free studio in Doha, where hundreds of Qatari artists graduated from his hands.
Literature and cultural activities
He contributed his writings to several Arab and international newspapers and magazines, including the American Herald Tribune.
- Among his most prominent writings in Arab newspapers are those fixed chapters in each of the Qatari Doha Magazine under the title “Masterpieces of International Art” and the Al-Riyadh newspaper – Saudi Arabia, where a full page was devoted to him in the cultural Thursday issue and the Saudi (National Guard) magazine under the title (Art and War) and the newspaper ( The Qatari flag, in addition to separate writings in (Al-Arabi) magazine, (Al-Arabiya magazine), (Al-Jawhara), (My Lady)... and others.
- A thousand three luxurious books (encyclopaedias) entitled (Art and War), (Inspirations of Celebrities) and (Masterpieces of International Art).
local awards
Excellent first prize from the Ministry of Culture in 1988, 1989 and 1990 for his paintings of children's books.
He was honored within the activities of the exhibition of press cartoons, which was held at the Palace of Arts in 2004.
International awards
- His book 'Inspirations of Celebrities' won the Cairo International Exhibition Prize in 1994.
Private collectibles
- Many agencies and individuals in many countries of the world, the most important of which are: - A picture of Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Britain, which she keeps in her private collection.
Official collectibles
- With many agencies and institutions in Egypt and abroad, especially in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Important works of art in the artist's life
He recorded the Gulf heritage of huge panoramic paintings.
- He drew paintings for the volume (Victory of Port Said), which was issued by the Information Service in the late sixties in several international languages, and it contains a vivid recording of the events of the Egyptian revolution and the Arab liberation battles in paintings.
The influences that were reflected on the artist intellectually and artistically
He was famous for his special style of drawing the cover of most of the books by the great authors at the level of the Arab world. Among the most important are Naguib Mahfouz, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Youssef Idris, Yahya Haqqi, Amin Youssef Ghorab and others.
He is also famous for drawing war, kinetic paintings, and hot events.
He is considered the most famous illustrator of magazines in the Arab world.
- The Egyptian spirit appears in his works, which reflects his affiliation and his connection to the roots
His close dealings with the great writers, thinkers, and creators through his drawings accompanying their works created a kind of harmony, harmony, and deep and endless human communication, which influenced his personality and style of artistic criticism, historical and analytical narration of artists' works and their biographies, which is characterized by artistic plot, strength, and rhetorical sense.
Jamal Qutb's world is like a vast sea, where we see him prolific in various aspects of creativity, such as poetry, playwriting, story, drawing, photography, art criticism, and history of famous artists and creators.
