Tag: Anıtkabir

Tekin Gülbasar

Tekin Gülbasar was born in 1978 in Zile, Tokat. He graduated Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculkty of Fine Arts, Sculpture Programme in 2006 and started working at the State Mint the same year.

Coins he has designed:

  • 2016 15 Temmuz Şehitleri ve Gazileri Anısına
  • 2016 Büyük Türk Devletleri Serisi
    • Büyük Hun İmparatorluğu
    • Batı Hun İmparatorluğu
    • Avrupa Hun İmparatorluğu
    • Ak Hun İmparatorluğu
    • Göktürk İmparatorluğu
    • Avar İmparatorluğu
    • Hazar İmparatorluğu
    • Uygur Devleti
    • Karahanlılar
    • Gazneliler
    • Büyük Selçuklu İmparatorluğu
    • Harzemşahlılar
    • Altınordu Devleti
    • Büyük Timur İmparatorluğu
    • Babür İmparatorluğu
    • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
  • 2016 İyonlar (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Serisi No: 6)
  • 2016 Uğur Böceği (Türkiye’de görülen hayvan türleri serisi)
  • 2016 Türk Keleri (Türkiye’de görülen hayvan türleri serisi)
  • 2016 Dünya İnsani Zirvesi İstanbul
  • 2016 Nasreddin Hoca “Göle Maya Çalmak” (Masal Kahramanları Serisi No: 2)
  • 2016 Beçin Kalesi – Ahmed Gazi Medresesi (Antik Kentler Serisi No: 10)
  • 2016 İlk Türk Amirali Çaka Bey (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 7)
  • 2017 Assos – Athena Tapınağı (Antik Kentler Serisi No: 11)
  • 2017 Nasreddin Hoca “Ye Kürküm Ye” (Masal Kahramanları Serisi No: 3)
  • 2017 Cam Kelebeği (Türkiye’de görülen hayvan türleri serisi)
  • 2017 Roma İmparatorluğu Aizanoi Zeus Tapınağı, Çavdarhisar İlk Borsa (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Serisi No: 7)
  • 2017 Umur Bey (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 8)
  • 2017 Datça Deveboynu Feneri (Deniz Fenerleri Serisi No: 7)
  • 2017 Meddah (Geleneksel Türk Tiyatrosu)
  • 2017 Kavuklu & Pişekar (Geleneksel Türk Tiyatrosu)
  • 2017 Darphane 550. Yıl
  • 2019 Patara Meclis Binası ve Kent Kapısı (Antik Kentler Serisi No: 13)
  • 2019 Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Serisi No: 9)
  • 2019 Azerbaycan Milli Meclisi’nin Kuruluşunun 100. Yılı
  • 2019 Anadolu’ya Özgü Kuşlar Serisi
    • Kaşıkçı (No: 2)
    • İbibik (No: 3)
    • Çöl Koşarı (No: 4)
    • Bayağı Uzunbacak (No: 5)
    • Baştankara (No: 6)
    • Ardıç (No: 8)
  • 2019 Bodrum Feneri (Deniz Fenerleri No: 9)
  • 2019 Göbeklitepe yılı
    • Gümüş ve Bronz
  • 2019 Kılıç Ali Paşa (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 10)
  • 2019 Azerbaycan Dışişleri Bakanlığının Kuruluşunun 100. Yılı
  • 2019 İmameddin Nesimi Doğumunun 650.Yılı
  • 2019 Nasreddin Hoca “Dünyanın ortası burasıdır” (Masal Kahramanları Serisi No: 5)
  • 2020 Osmanlı İmparatorluğu (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Serisi No: 10)
  • 2020 Karabağ Azerbaycandır 50 Manat
  • 2020 Karabağ Azerbaycandır 20 TL
  • 2020 Perge – Helenistik Kapı (Antik Kentler Serisi No: 14)
  • 2020 Yeşilay’ın kuruluşunun 100. yılı
    • Gümüş
    • Bronz
  • 2020 Gastronomi Şehri Afyonkarahisar
    • Altın kaplama
    • Gümüş
    • Bronz
  • 2020 Nasreddin Hoca “Fil Hikayesi” (Masal Kahramanları Serisi No: 6)
  • 2020 Osman Gazi 1258 ~ 1326 (Osmanlı Padişahları No: 1)
  • 2020 Orhan Gazi 1281 ~ 1362 (Osmanlı Padişahları No: 2)
  • 2023 Ayşe Hafsa Valide Sultan Vakfiyesi’nin 500. Yılı (Manisa Sultan Külliyesi Camii)
  • 2023 Deniz Harp Okulu 250. Yıl
  • 2023 Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi 750. Vuslat Yılı
  • 2023 Saltuklular (Anadolu Beylikleri Serisi No: 4)
  • 2024 Ak Hun Devleti (Büyük Türk Devletleri Serisi No:4)
  • 2024  Hungarian-Turkish Culture Year
  • 2024 Galatasaray’s 24th Championship in the Turkish Super League

[1]Obverse of these coins is the handiwork of Hakkı Baha Çavuşgil.

(We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the artist for his invaluable contributions to this page)

Etem Çalışkan

Etem Caliskan is the artist who created the designs of the silver and gold coins commemorating the Centenary of Ataturk’s birth. (relief and models were made by the State Mint sculptor Hakkı Baha Cavusgil).

The artist studied at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, as a sudent of Prof. Emin Barın (who designed the circulation coins of 1947) and also  Prof. Namık Bayık who designed some of the 1982 commemoratives for World Football Cup.

His brief bio on his personal webpage:

“Publicist, artist, painter, calligrapher.

Born in 1928 in Tarsus – Göçük. Studied in Mersin during his elementary and middle school. Enrolled Academy of Fine Arts, Poster Department for higher education.

Studied pattern under Prof. Sabri Berkel, typography under Prof. Emin Barın, poster design and graphics under Prof. Namık Bayık.

Assisted Prof Emin Barin during construction of Anitkabir (Ataturk’s Mosoleum) as they were tasked with inscribing significant panels and walls.

Worked for various newspapers such as Zafer, Öncü, Dünya, Aksam, Milliyet, Hürriyet,  starting at Sabah in 1954 as an illustrator and calligrapher. Designed numerous book covers, posters; most notably the ones for the centenary of Atatürk’s birth.”

 

Cover photo: https://yurthaberleri.net/haber/etem-caliskandan-ataturk-portreleri-sergisi-haberi-1368.html

Mustafa Çakırcalı

He is a graphic designer, illustrator, and engraver who created the portraits featured on the 100 and 200 Lira banknotes currently in circulation (ninth emission), as well as the reverse graphics of various banknotes of the 7th and 8th emissions *1.

Her first work to appear on banknotes was the reverse engraving of the 7th Emission 100 TL note.

His engravings featured on banknotes:

  • 7. Emission
      • 1983, 100 TL Mehmed Akif Ersoy House, Ankara Castle and the scroll with the National Anthem
      • 1991, 100.000 TL Children presenting flowers to Atatürk
      • 1992, 250.000 TL Kızıl Kule (Red Tower) of Alanya
      • 1993, 500.000 TL Çanakkale Martyrs’ Memorial
      • 1995, 1.000.000 TL Atatürk Dam
      • 1997 5.000.000 TL Anıtkabir, mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
      • 1999 10.000.000 TL map of Piri Reis
  • 8. Emission
    • 1 YTL
    • 5 YTL
    • 10 YTL
    • 20 YTL
    • 50 YTL View of Cappadocia
    • 100 YTL View of Ishak Pasha Palace
  • 9. Emission
    • 100 TL
      • Portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk based on a photo by Cemal Işıksel
      • Portrait of Itri, based on the sculpture by Hüseyin Anka Özkan, located in the garden of the General Directorate of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
    • 200 TL
      • Portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
      • Portrait of Yunus Emre based on the artwork of painter Münif Fehim (*ii).

Mustafa Çakırcalı was born in Adana in 1957. He graduated from the Adana Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1979. During his education, he worked as a painter, graphic designer, and cartoonist in various advertising agencies, Hürriyet Newspaper, and large printing houses.

He began his artistic career as a self-taught artist, but had the opportunity to develop his skills by working with renowned artists. Alinur Uğurpakkan was his first mentor, and he briefly worked with Etem Çalışkan, Nehar Tüblek, and Sezgin Burak.

In 1979, he won first place in the exam for an engraving artist at the Banknote Printing House and started working there that same year. Through the Banknote Printing House’s training program, he received banknote engraving training from Professor Trento Cionnini at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts in Italy.

He contributed to the production of banknote cliches in our country by shortening the lengthy working stages in engraving techniques with new technology.

In addition to his graphic and engraving work, he conducted research on preventing counterfeiting in banknotes and served as the Chairman of the Counterfeit Banknote Expert Commission. He provided training on recognizing banknotes and counterfeit banknotes to various institutions, primarily to Central Bank cashiers.

He is the graphic designer of all the 1998 “Turkish Celebrities” series stamps and the author of the portraits of Haldun Taner and Bedia Muvahhit. He is also the creator of the portrait on the 1999 Atatürk-themed definitive postage stamps.

Many children’s books, primary school textbooks, and school magazines illustrated by him have been published. He won awards twice in the UNICEF and Bratislava children’s book illustration competitions, and his works have been exhibited in various countries around the world.

Mustafa Çakırcalı, who retired from Banknote Printing House in 2012, continues to work in his own office.

 

(We extend our deepest gratitude to the artist for contributing valuable information on his artwork)

 

[1] TCMB LİRA Bülteni, Sonbahar 2012 Sayı:64, “Banknot ve Gravür” başlıklı makale

[2] Serideki İhap Hulusi Görey, Vasfi Rıza Zobu ve Feza Gürsey portreleri, Şükrü Ertürk eseridir.

resume: www.mustafacakircali.com