Nazlı Ecevit

Nazlı Ecevit.

NAZLI ECEVIT

Nazli Ecevit, who has been wielding a brush now for 67 years, was one of the first graduates of the Girls’ School of Fine Arts, opened back in the days of the Union and Progress administration. Born in 1900 as Fatma Nazlx into a traditional m ilitary family, this artist studied with Turkey’s first woman painter, Mihri Hamm, and with Omer Adil Bey at the School, where she also had lessons with Ibrahim Feyhaman.

In 1920 she went to Kastamonu to accompany her father, who had gone to Anatolia to join the Turkish War of Independence after spending two years as a prisoner of war captured by the British on the Arab front in 1918. There, Nazli Hamm was appointed painting teacher at a school where a strange incident then occurred. The previous teacher, who was untrained and had no diploma, was going to be dismissed. In order to prevent this teacher from losing her position, Nazli Hamm consented to be the school’s gymnastics instructor, in which capacity she worked for eleven months.

Following the War of Independence Nazli’s father was transferred to Bolu and then Izmit, where she met and married Dr. Fahri Ecevit in 1924. Their only child, Bii- lent Ecevit, was born a year later.

Dr. Ecevit was subsequently transferred to Ankara, where the family spent many long years, Nazli as a teacher at the Ankara Girls’ College and the School for Music Teachers.

Kendi fırçasıyla Nazlı Ecevit. A self - purtrait of Nazlı Ecevit.

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