Education
He studied military science and art at the Military College, Istanbul, Turkey, (then the capital of the Ottoman Empire) from 1904.
He studied military science and art at the Military College, Istanbul, Turkey, (then the capital of the Ottoman Empire) from 1904.
He was the first well-known painter in modern Iraq and the leader of realism school in Iraq. He studied art and painting in the European traditional style and became a landscape painter, he painted many landscapes of Iraq in the realism style, using shading and composition to suggest time periods. A collection of his work is hung in The Pioneers Museum, Baghdad.
He was a major figure among the first generation of modern Iraqi artists and was a member of the Art Friends Society (AFS, Jami’yat Asdiqa’ al-Fen).