Seif Wanly
Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly, most commonly referred to simply as Seif Wanly (سيف وانلي) (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter.
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Seif Wanly
- Name
- Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly
- Born
- 31 March 1906
- Birthplace
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Died
- 15 February 1979
- Place of death
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Known for
- Painting
- Awards
- Egyptian State Merit Award (1973)
- Nationality
- Egypt and Ottoman Empire.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Languages
- Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
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Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly, most commonly referred to simply as Seif Wanly (سيف وانلي) (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter.
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• Name — Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly • Born — 31 March 1906 • Birthplace — Alexandria, Egypt • Died — 15 February 1979 • Place of death — Stockholm, Sweden • Known for — Painting • Awards — Egyptian State Merit Award (1973)
Early life and career
Early life and career
Wanly was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1906 into an aristocratic family of Turkish origin. He introduced modern art to Egypt after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham Wanly and together they participated in more than 17 exhibitions, notably in the Biennale of Venice and in São Paulo, Brazil. In the late 1950s, Wanly travelled to Nubia to produce a series of paintings and drawings portraying life in Upper Egypt for a governmental project to document culture and conditions prior to the relocation that occurred to enable construction of the Aswan High Dam. Today an entire floor of the Mahmoud Said Museum in Alexandria is dedicated to Seif and Adham Wanly. His work is collected by several Museums, including Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Darat AL Funoon in Amman, and the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah.
Personal life
Personal life
He died in 1979 at Stockholm at age of 72.
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In 2015, Google Doodle commemorated his 109th birthday.
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1906
Seif Wanly was born on 31 March 1906.
1979
Seif Wanly died on 15 February 1979.
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Alexandria.
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Stockholm.
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scholarly publication
- Wanly, Seif (1906–1979), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
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- “Seif Wanly”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4119421: Seif Wanly
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Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly. His recorded languages were Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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