Background
He was born in 1932 in Istanbul, Turkey.
He was born in 1932 in Istanbul, Turkey.
He enrolled in the İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts’ Painting Department in 1950. Studied under Halil Dikmen, Cemal Tollu and Nurullah Berk and graduated in 1957.
He worked in Italy between 1959 and 1960, in France between 1965 and 1966. He participated in competitions, opened exhibitions. Between 1952-1969, he managed Art Programs in İstanbul Technical University Television. In 1978 in Girne, Cyprus, together with the UMO Architectural Bureau, he performed relief sculptures and texts of the "Freedom and Peace" monument.
He became Associate Professor at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1968 and professor at 1981. In 1989, he was appointed as Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty. He became Associate Professor at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1968 and professor at 1981.
The influences of masters such as Caravaggio, Picasso, Chagall and Matisse during the initial phase of his art career left their place to the authentic sources of the Turkish culture, with which he reached a novel synthesis. He painted the Eastern and Western elements based on their authentic sources.
Dinçer Erimez focused more on social subject matters in the Sixties. With multi-figured and strong black and white compositions, he adopted a pointilist style. Aimed for a visual narration of the union of nature, society and man through plain color, texture and form. Influenced by the simple expression of folk art and the innocence of children’s paintings, combined a sorrowful sensitivity in two dimensional compositions based on traditional miniatures.