- Salah Taher
Salah Taher ( _ar. صلاح طاهر) was a prominent Egyptian painter. Born on May 12th, 1911, in
Cairo , he joined and Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, now part ofHelwan University .He worked for some time as a drawing and art teacher in Al-Abaseyya High School in
Alexandria . He went on to fame in the 1960s as he was appointed head of the Museum of Modern Arts. In 1962, he was appointed head of theOpera . In 1966, he joinedAl-Ahram . He painted more than 35 paintings, for which he received no fee as he stated, forAl-Ahram that decorate the walls of its building. Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80art fairs for his work inEgypt ,Venice ,New York ,San Francisco ,Geneva ,Beirut ,Kuwait andJeddah . [ [http://www.egyptembassy.us/cultural.htm Egyptian embassy in USA website] ] . He also participated in 67 collective fairs in Egypt. [ [http://www.egyptembassy.us/cultural.htm Egyptian embassy in USA website] ]He was granted the highest awards in Egypt and internationally, among them in 1961 was the
Guggenheim Award . In 2001, he was honored alongside Nobel laureateNaguib Mahfouz in the soft opening of theBibliotheca Alexandrina , which was entitled “The brush and the pen," by publishing a book about his work. He remained in the position of the artistic consultant forAl-Ahram till his death. He died, at the age of 95, on February 6th, 2007 ofbladder cancer . He is survived by a son, Ayman, who is also a painter, and two grandchildren. [ [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/profile.htm Ahram weekly article] ]References
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* [http://www.zamalekartgallery.com/en_exhibition.php?exhibitionID=60&artistID=14&availiable= Zamalek art gallery]
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