Background
Berkel was born in Shkupi, where, in 1927, he completed high school at a French lyceum.
Berkel was born in Shkupi, where, in 1927, he completed high school at a French lyceum.
From 1927 to 1928 he studied at an Art School in Beograd.
From 1929–1935 he finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. Berkel died in Istanbul. In the honor of Albanian talented painter Sabri Berkel from Turkey, National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to name the Berkel (crater), or the well known print maker, and it is a complex crater that sits inside of the larger Ellington basin that indicates the presence of dark material at depth of its surface.