Tag: Asik Veysel

Nalan Yerlibucak – Çakır

The artis is born in İzmit and graduated Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Sculpture Programme in 2001.  Started working for the State Mint in 2008 and currently still is designing coins and medals.

Exhibitions and events she took part in:

  • 2008 – Yazlık ‘08 Artisan Art Gallery (İstanbul) 2008 – Young Sculptors Exhibition (İstanbul)
  • 2008 – Marmara University Graduates Exhibition
  • 2007 – Fikret Mualla Painting Studio Muhammet Şengöz students exhibition
  • 2007 – 2nd Young Sculptors Workshop II (Yesemek Bienal at Gaziantep)
  • 2005 – 3rd Art at Akmerkez (İstanbul)
  • 2003 – Nilay Kan Büyükişleyen Sculpture Workshop Exhibition Kaş Art Gallery (İstanbul)
  • 2002 – 63rd State Painting and Sculpture Competition Exhibition (Ankara)
  • 2001 – Water and Mind (Su ve Us) Exhibition (İstanbul)

Awards

2007 – “Kemal Türkler Mosoleum Project Competition” 2nd Place (İstanbul)

Coins that the artist designed for the State Mint:

  • 2001 32nd EuroBasket European Basketball Championship for Men
  • 2001 coins from the “Birds of Turkey” Serie
    • Ala Sığırcık (Sturnus roseus)
    • Kızıl Akbaba (Gyps fulvus)
    • İzmir Yalıçapkını (Halcyon smyrnensis)
    • Küçük Karabatak (Phalacrocorax pygmeus)

 

  • 2002 coins from the “Flowers of  Turkey” Serie
    • Şakayık (Paeonia turcica)
    • Anadolu Orkidesi (Orchis anatolica)
    • Anadolu Glayölü (Gladiolus anatolicus)
    • Allıgelin (Tchihatchewia isatidea)
    • Çakalnergis (Sternbergia candida)
    • Manisa Lalesi (Tulipa orphanidea)

 

  • 2005 Edirne Selimiye Mosque (Cultural Assets Serie No:1)
  • 2005 Mostar Bridge (Cultural Assets No:2)
  • 2005 coins from the “Animals of Turkey” Set
    • Striped Hyena
    • Long-eared Hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus)
  • 2007 Troy – Cultural Heritage of the humankind
  • 2007 Centenary of the Scouts
  • 2007 Kariye / Chora

 

  • 2008 Kaşgarlı Mahmut 1000th birth year

 

  • 2009 Frederic Chopin 200th birth year
  • 2009 Katip Çelebi 400th birth year
  • 2009 1 Lira Elephant
  • 2009 1 Lira Caretta Caretta

 

  • 2010 Istanbul European Capital of Culture
  • 2010 Amasya Houses
  • 2010 Leathersmith (Traditional Turkish Handicrafts)
  • 2010 Ertuğrul Frigate
  • 2010 1 Lira Angora Cat
  • 2010 1 Lira Sivas Kangal Shepard Dog

 

 

  • 2014 1 Lira Byerley Turkish Horse
  • 2014 1 Lira Anatolian Eagle
  • 2014 1 Lira Striped Hyena
  • 2014 Halide Edip Adıvar 50th death anniversary

 

  • 2015 Operation Sarıkamış Centenary
  • 2015 Gallipoli
  • 2015 Hamidiye Cruiser
  • 2015 Nusret Minelayer
  • 2015 Ertuğrul Frigate 125th anniversary
  • 2015 Midilli Cruiser
  • 2015 Muavenet-i Milliye Destroyer
  • 2015 First Nurse Esma Deniz (First Women of the Republic Serie)
  • 2016 Orkhon monuments & inscriptions
  • 2016 Centennary of the Victory of Kut
  • 2016 Dragonfly (part of the serie Animal Species seen in Turkey)
  • 2016 Erzurum Clock Tower
  • 2016 Yesemek Sculpture Workshop
  • 2016 Zonguldak – Rize (Seven Regions – Seven Cities No. 7)
  • 2017 Blue Crab
  • 2017 125th anniversary of the first Museum & Sarcophagus of Alexander
  • 2018 Şeyh Edebali (Those who enlighten Anatolia #3)
  • 2019 Danishmendids & Tzachas (Anatolian Beyliks Serie #1)
  • 2021 Koca Yusuf (Turkish Sportmen Serie #1)
  • 2021 Western Hun Empire
  • 2021 1 Lira Tarsus Çatalburun Turkish Pointer Dog
  • 2021 1 Lira Caracal
  • 2022 Tomb of Gülbaba at Budapest Hungary
  • 2022 Mersin Sturgeon
  • 2023 200 Lira Centenary of the Turkish Republic in gold
  • 2023 100 Lira Centenary of the Turkish Republic in silver
  • 2023 5 Lira Centenary of the Turkish Republic in bronze
  • 2023 Omar Khayyam
  • 2023 Centennary of Ankara becoming the capital of Turkish Republic
  • 2024 Asik Veysel Satiroglu
  • 2024 50th Anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation
  • 2024 Süleyman Demirel (Turkish Politicians of the Republican Era No:4)
  • 2024 Centenary of the Directorate of Religious Affairs

 

[1] Designers of some of the commemoratives released by the State Mint, were not announced on the certificates or the newsletters. Engravers of such coins are listed only to the extent that we could identify their designer. The list will be updated with new information.

Selahattin Tuğa (1945 ~ 2023)

Selahattin Tuğa, one of the engraving artists of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, has his name imprinted as S.TUĞA on the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk portrait and the Bosphorus view on the sixth issue 1.000 Lira banknotes. (*42, p 133).

He is also the engraver who produced the Atatürk portraits on the seventh-edition 10 Lira and 5.000 Lira banknotes.

 

 

Selahattin Tuğa was born in Diyarbakır in 1945. He completed his primary and secondary education in Diyarbakır and graduated from the Decorative Arts Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1966.

As a student at the academy, he engraved pictures and portraits on copper plates. Due to these engravings, he was recommended to the Banknot Printing House engraving workshop and after the entrance exam, he started working at the CBRT Banknot Printing House engraving workshop in 1966. During his internship, he received his first information about the taydus (taille-douce, soft carving) engraving technique from Polish engraving artist Jan Piwczyk.

Instead of direct engraving by hand, he transferred the linear portraits onto copper plates via a photomechanical method, etched them with acid and used the deepening method with engraving pens.

In the second half of the 1970s, he made the engraving of the portrait of Atatürk on the front of the E-6 series 1.000 TL banknote, and the Rumelian Fortress Bosphorus view on the back, including the Bosphorus Bridge. The graphic design of the banknote was made by Mustafa Üstün.

When preparations for the E-7 series small-sized banknotes began in 1978, he produced the Atatürk portrait on the 10 Lira and 5.000 TL banknotes of the of the E-7 series.

In 1985, he made the front and back graphic designs of the second series of the E-7 5,000 TL. He served as assistant manager between 1979 and 1990 and then served as a consultant until his retirement.

Selahattin Tuğa, who also designed countless National Lottery tickets, is also the designer and engraver of many stamps *1. Atatürk portraits on stamps of various years, the portrait of İsmet İnönü, and the “Turkish Celebrities” series of 1992 and 1993 are few of many.

 

In addition to these works, he engraved portraits on copper plates on decorative items. He also made watercolor paintings of the subjects on the front of the National Lottery tickets, and supervised the color separation, mold and printing stages of these tickets printed in the banknote printing house.

Selahattin Tuğa, who exhibited Atatürk portrait engravings and oil paintings in his personal exhibitions, passed away in 2023.

[1] stamp images: Pulhane.com
[2] “Selahattin Tuğa, Selahattin Tuğa, Oil Painting Exhibition, Destek Reassurance Art Gallery, İstanbul“, Salt Research

(We would like to express our sincere thanks to his family and also to Mr. Mustafa Çakırcalı, who provided valuable information about Selahattin Tuğa in our article.)

 

* Click for other artists whose work has been used in the design of Turkish currency.