Nickname: Farouk Shehata
Date of birth: 12/3/1938
Place of birth: Alexandria
Date of death: 12/27/2017
Specialization: Graphics
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school grade

- Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, 1962.
- Master’s degree in Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, 1972.
He obtained a professorship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, Germany, with distinction, in 1976 (equivalent to a doctorate in Egypt).
- Doctorate from the Academy of Arts in Norberg, Germany, 1980.

Membership

- Member of the specialized national councils, Arts and Culture Division.
- Member of the Fine Artists Syndicate.

Jobs and professions undertaken by the artist

- He worked as a technical advisor to the Tourism Promotion Authority in Alexandria in 1973.
- Appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Roman Museum in Alexandria in 1976.
- He worked as a consultant to the Alexandria Governorate for Technical Affairs in 1981.
- He worked as a consultant for the Alexandria Biennial of the Mediterranean Basin 1982.
- He was invited to lecture at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany, 1982: 1999.
- Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, 1986.
- Expert in the People’s Assembly in the Tourism, Information and Culture Committee 1988.
He worked as a cultural advisor and head of the educational mission of the Egyptian Embassy in the Republic of Austria, Hungary and the Republic of Slovakia with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary from 1991 to 1994.
- He was appointed Vice Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, 1995.
- He previously served as a member of the National Council for World Peace.
- Visiting professor at the Academy of Arts in Norberg, Germany.
- Visiting professor at the University of Siegen, Germany.
- He was appointed professor of artistic appreciation at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in 1997.
- Experts of the Tourism, Culture and Information Committee of the People’s Assembly 1997.
- Full-time professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, since 1998.

Places where the artist lived

- Alexandria .
- Cairo .
- Germany .
- Austria .

Special exhibitions

He held 46 private exhibitions of his works in Egypt and abroad.
- Exhibition at Grant Hall in downtown Cairo 2007.
- Exhibition (Whisper of Colors) in the Modern Art Hall of the Brussels Museum - Belgium, December 2009.
- Exhibition (Color Tones) at the Egyptian Cultural Center in Vienna - Austria, March 2010.
- Exhibition at the International Cultural Center in Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012.
- “Modern Colors” exhibition at the Egyptian Cultural Center in Vienna, April 2013.
- Exhibition (Graphic Art... Fifty Years of Creative Freedom) at the Alexandria Library - Conference Center - Eastern Exhibition Hall, December 2014.
- A permanent exhibition entitled (Farouk Shehata... An Extended Experience) at the Bibliotheca Alexandria, October 2016.
- Exhibition (Drawing with Words) at Grant Gallery, November 2016.
- Exhibition at (Ahmed Sabry) Hall at the Gezira Arts Center in Zamalek, December 2019.

Local group exhibitions

- Exhibition (Memory of Gamal Abdel Nasser) in the building of the Central Committee of the Socialist Union (later the National Party) September 1972.
He has held more than 100 exhibitions of contemporary Egyptian art since 1975.
He participated in most contemporary Egyptian art exhibitions in Egypt and abroad from 1962 until now by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
- Exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria.
- The National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (26) 1999 and session (27) 2001.
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (28) 2003.
- The First Salon of Drawing Art (Black-White) at the Gezira Arts Center, May 2004.
- National Graphic Art Exhibition, third session 2005.
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (29) 2005.
- The First Fine Creativity Festival (Thirtieth General Exhibition and First Fine Art Market) 2007.
- (Art and Giving) Exhibition at the Orouba Rotary Club 2007.
- An exhibition entitled (Impressions on Paper) in Zamalek Hall 2007.
- Gallery Salon, first session, Grant Gallery, May 2007.
- Sketches and Small Paintings Festival, Shadekor Hall, Heliopolis, 2008.
- Dream Exhibition in the Exhibition Hall of the Karma Bin Hani Cultural Center, Ahmed Shawky Museum, February 2008.
- The Second Fine Creativity Festival (Egypt Salon, second session) 2008.
- An exhibition at the Egyptian Embassy building in Canberra, Australia, in the last week of July to celebrate the fifty-sixth anniversary of the July 23 Revolution in 2008.
- Gallery Salon, second session, Salama Hall, May 2008.
- An exhibition entitled (Memories Lane) at Grant Gallery in downtown Cairo, 2009
- Atelier Shadecor exhibition in Heliopolis 2009.
- The First Sakia Salon for small pieces in the halls of (Al-Hikma and Al-Nahr) in Abdel Moneim Al-Sawy Culturewheel - March 2009.
- The Third Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-Second Session) 2009.
- Alexandria Artists Exhibition (What Next), parallel to the 25th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries 2009.
- Exhibition (Art for Every Family) at Shadekor Hall in Heliopolis, March 2010.
- Exhibition (Visions in Graphic Art) at the Mahmoud Saeed Center for Museums in Alexandria 2010.
- Alexandria Artists Exhibition in (Isis) Hall, Mahmoud Mukhtar Cultural Center - Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum, April 2010.
- Exhibition of exhibitions for acquisition at the Al-Arish National Museum of Antiquities in Al-Arish, April 2010.
- Drawing Art Salon (Black - White), second session at Al Jazeera Arts Center, July 2010.
- The Fourth Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-Third Session) 2010.
- Exhibition “Selections from Contemporary Egyptian Art” in the Housing and Development Bank Hall - Mohandiseen, July 2010.
- (Mother Egypt) exhibition at the Zamalek Art Hall in Zamalek, March 2011.
- Exhibition (Art for Every Family) at Shadecor Hall in Heliopolis, March 2011, 2012.
- (Sahwa 2) Exhibition at the Hanager Arts Center at the Cairo Opera House - February 2012.
- (Egyptian Visions 2) exhibition at the Mahmoud Saeed Museum Center in Alexandria, April 2012.

The influences that affected the artist intellectually and artistically

The artist’s upbringing in an environment surrounded by farms and beautiful scenery from all sides in the Shubra neighborhood had a great impact on his artistic life and in the emergence of the beginnings of artistic preparation. The beginnings of this preparation appeared because from his youth he had been drawing with chalk on the ground and with pencil on the walls and everywhere. Corresponding papers.
- When he studied at the Institute of Arts and Decorations, he found a fertile field that helped to develop his talents and preparations, especially with regard to living studies of human bodies. In addition to that, he always had in his pocket what was called a sketchbook, and he would draw while in the street or in any place he encountered such scenes or scenes. Those faces are of people walking along the roads.
- When he was at the Institute of Arts and Decorations, he was very fond of live studies. A Roman professor named Monsieur Jean Pontilla was teaching him. This man was able to teach him and was deeply acquainted with artistic anatomy. In fact, he was so impressed by him and his method of teaching that after he returned from the mission, he taught a subject. He studied living nature, and he followed the example of this professor. He was so impressed by this subject that he did not content himself with studying with charcoal or pencil, as was the case at that time, but rather he used to draw directly with a brush, with the special skill and extreme boldness that this method required.
- He is also a child who was standing in the circle of Al -Hawah in the Al -Muhammadi Square in Al -Tramdash to witness the handicrafts and emotions in the anticipation of the miracle from this container. the artist .
Also in Al-Muhammadi Square in Demerdash, he learned to buy old books from his weekly market from Al-Muhammadi sellers, so that he would fall into his hand with the book Little Literature and Great Literature by Ibn Al-Muqaffa, and this would be the beginning of his attachment to literature and his involvement in the field of culture in its comprehensiveness and reading its branches in four languages that he mastered completely, namely English, French, German, and Italian. Then He increased his knowledge of the trends of philosophy, whether general or aesthetic philosophy, then his passion for literary and scientific studies and writings, which allowed him to be present in the literary community in all its directions, and all of this benefited him in the field of art, as most of his paintings express deep intellectual aspects that try to present his point of view.
His Italian teacher, Di Stefano, also advised him to read the history of art in order to understand what was going on around him and be able to evaluate and appreciate it, and his hunger for reading increased since then, which made him develop his style and talents to broader horizons. As he used to say, culture to the artist is like the wings of a bird. The longer and greater it is, the more able he is to advance. To worlds that are difficult for others.
- Since he came from religious origins, he often tended to express Sufi ideas, from which we pick up in this field the painting of the creation of the universe, Moses and Pharaoh.
- He was passionate about his love for Egypt and filled with the dream of liberating it from colonialism, so his paintings over the years were a fiery expression of all of that.
His trip to Palestine was also with the American mission, where he spent many years, producing paintings about the Palestinian issue, as he benefited from his mission in Palestine and coexisted with its people in 1926.
- Hassan Muhammad Hassan was an educated artist who believed in the usefulness of artistic culture. He had famous lecture tours in multiple languages, as well as his seminars, radio broadcasts, writings, and drawings in Egyptian newspapers and magazines in the thirties and forties. He had a prominent role in teaching art for more than half a century, and dozens of artists graduated from his hands. Among the most prominent of them is his student, Omar Al-Najdi, who used to say to his teacher, Hassan Muhammad Hassan: (I am behind you in art). An artist committed to the motives of patriotism, his opposition was dominated by these tendencies in expressing the issues of Arabism, especially the issue of Palestine.
What is new in his works is what relates to his intellectual artistic style, which mixes philosophical ideas with modern methods and doctrines, formulating them in a unique symbolic form. His artistic school is diverse, starting with classicism and representing many periods of transformation and transition between all other artistic schools until it ended with contemporary art in his personal style, which combines Egyptian authenticity since the Pharaonic era with European contemporaryism by which Western civilization was known.

First prize in the revolution commemorative stamp design competition.
- Golden Jubilee Award of the Fine Arts Lovers Association in Cairo.
- Naval Forces Shield 1998.
- Alexandria University Shield 1999.
- Appreciation Award from Alexandria University.
- Shield, medal from the Fine Artists Syndicate in Alexandria.
- Certificate of appreciation from the Arts Association in Al-Ghouri, Cairo.
- State Appreciation Award 2006.
- EgyptAir Shield 2010.

International awards

- Awards from the Sixth Alexandria Biennale 1965, the Seventh 1968, and the Ninth 1972.
- Award from the Engraving Biennale in Krakow, Poland.
- Gold medal from the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Frans Joseph, in Germany.
- Medal from the German Ministry of Culture in Bonn.
- Gold Medal from the President of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, and the President of the Republic of Austria, Klads Kelstil.
- Medal from Bratislava University.
- Medal of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bratislava.
- Medal from the Museum of Art History in Vienna.
- Medal from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.
- Certificate of appreciation and medal from the Sharjah Biennial 1995.
- Ten certificates of appreciation from our embassies in Eastern and Western Europe.
- Second prize at the International Symposium Exhibition for the Art of Engraving 2002.
- Gold Medal from the American Art History Institute.
- Certificate of appreciation from US President Reagan.
- Certificate of appreciation from the information office in Bonn.
- Certificate of appreciation from the Cultural Office in Bonn.
- Certificate of appreciation from the Arab League office in Bonn.
- Gold Medal from the President of the Republic of Germany, Emanuel Johannes Rau.
- Gold medal from former Prime Minister of Germany Helmut Schmidt, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
- Certificate of appreciation from the Egyptian Embassy in Austria 2010.
Medal from the International Cultural Center in Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012.

Special collectibles

- Some individuals in Egypt and abroad.

Official collectibles

- Engraving Library in West and East Berlin, Paris, Nuremberg.
- Graphic Library in Paris.
- Graphic museums in Rostock, Dresden, Berlin and Munich, Germany.
- Museum of Modern Art in Saarbrücken.
- Graphic Museum in Nuremberg.
- Krakow Museum in Poland.
- Varna Museum in Bulgaria.
- Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf.
- Academy of Arts in Nuremberg.
- Academy of Arts, University of Siegen, Germany.
- Presidency .
- Dresden City Museum, East Germany.
- Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Germany.
- Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo.
- Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria.
- Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
- Ministry of Culture in Egypt.
- Museum of Modern Egyptian Art in Cairo.
- information General Association .
- Al-Ahram Foundation building.
- Journalists Syndicate building in Cairo.
- Alexandria Library Museum.
- Syrian Fine Arts Syndicate.
- The National Museum in Damascus - Syrian College of Fine Arts.
- Museum of Arab Art in Amman.
There are examples of his paintings in ten Egyptian embassies in Latin America.
- Embassy of Egypt in Bonn
-Egyptian Embassy in Vienna.
- Embassy of Egypt in Prague.
- Embassy of Egypt in Budapest.
- Mahmoud Saeed Museum in Alexandria.
- Győr City Museum, Hungary.
- Alexandria Library.

For important artistic works in the artist’s life

He drew international figures and presidents of republics and interviewed them.
- The late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- The late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat.
- President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak.
- President of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Kurt Waldheim M.
- President of the Republic of Austria, Clauds Kellstil.
- President of the Republic of Germany, Emanuel Johannes Rau.
- Prime Minister of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauss.
- German Prime Minister Helmut Schmidt.
- Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

The influences that affected the artist intellectually and artistically

- I practice many graphic artistic techniques by paying attention to the literary content and meaning first within the template of a clearly defined expressive form.
- The artist recently turned to interest in colors in his printing and began to care about nature through a Sufi sense and in a natural abstraction characterized by poetry.