YURDAER ALTINTAŞ
Was born in 1935. He graduated from the advanced level of the Poster Workshop of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1957.
He worked for advertisement agencies for a short while, but then chose to be freelance artist. His first solo exhibition at the Turkish-German Cultural Center in 1964 is the very first graphic design exhibition in Turkey.
He became the first Turkish graphic artist whose works were published abroad when the German journal Gebrauchsgraphik published his works in 1965.
His works were accepted and exhibited in a variety of graphic design activities abroad starting with the second half of the 1960s.
He endeavored to achieve the recognition of Turkish graphic design in foreign countries. He initiated the foundation of the Association of Graphic Artists in 1968. His Nasreddin Hodja illustrations were collected in a book and published in England in 1974.
He began to teach at the College of Applied Industrial Arts of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1976.
He took on various educational posts in graphic design until he retired from the Graphics Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Mimar Sinan University in 2002.
He was the chairman of the Professional Association of Graphic Artists first in 1982 and then from 1987 until 1993.
In 1996, he organized an international poster exhibition by invitation to celebrate his 60th birthday.
Currently, Yurdaer Altıntaş continues to produce graphic works. Many museums and archives in the world house the artist’s works.
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