Artists whose designs were used on Turkish currency

We compiled the list of artists who created the designs of the coins and banknotes of Republic of Türkiye.

Most of the coins were produced by artists employed by the Mint, and most of the banknotes by the engravers of the Central Bank’s Banknote Print, yet in the early periods of the Republic, foreign experts were consulted and the works of artists participating in occasional competitions have also taken place on commemorative and circulation coins.

Artists whose designs were used on Turkish currency:

(dates in brackets indicate the year which the artist’s first design ewas released into circulation.)

Artists who were awarded degrees in competitions, but whose designs were not used on coins:

Artists whose artwork is used on currency indirectly:

*designers of some of the coins and most of the banknotes are missing from the list. It will be updated as new information surfaces.

cover photo: 2018 annual report of the Turkşsh Stete Mint

Abdullah Taşçı

Abdullah Tasci and his professor Namik Bayik created the patterns for the majority of the coins of the 1982 Spain FIFA World Cup Commemorative Coins series. (One coin of the set of four pieces was designed mint sculptor Suat Ozyonum.)

He enrolled the Academy of Fine Arts in 1967, and graduated the Graphical Arts Faculty in 1972.

He became assistant professor in 1982 with his thesis titled “Graphic Layout and Contemporary Book Graphics in Turkish Manuscripts” under Prof. Emin Barın. He tought at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts until his reitrement in 1999. Afterwards he tought at Maltepe University between 2000 and 2007, and at Dogus University between 2007 and 2020.

He created the logo still used by the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, designed 8 font families, and translated around 1.000 fonts into Turkish.

Personal website:https://www.abdullahtasci.com.tr/whoisabdullahtasci

*Etem Çalışkan, who is also a student of Prof. Emin Barın and Namik Bayik, designed the commemorative coins for the centenary of Atatürk’s birth.

Namık Bayık (1926 ~ 1992)

Namik Bayik and his student Abdullah Tasci created the patterns for the majority of the coins of the 1982 Spain FIFA World Cup Commemorative Coins series. (One coin of the set of four pieces was designed mint sculptor Suat Ozyonum.)

Etem Çalışkan, another student of Prof. Emin Barın and Namik Bayik, designed the commemorative coins for the centenary of Atatürk’s birth.

https://arhm.ktb.gov.tr/artists/detail/2240/namik-bayik-1926-1992

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

Hakkı Baha Çavuşgil (1924 ~ 2006)

Hakkı Baha Çavuşgil, started working for the Turkish State Mint in 1979 and created dozens of circulation and commemorative coins until his death.

He graduated from Fine Arts Academy and created many sculptures, focusing on abstract figures.

His brief cv from the State Mint Website:

He was born on 15th of May, 1924 in Harput, Elazig. completed his primary and middle education in Canakkale, his high school in the capital; Financial Trade School of Ankara.

Enrolled to Academy of Fine Arts (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University today). Received lessons from Rudolf Belling and Zuhtu Muritoglu workshops, graduated sculpture programme in 1955. Also graduated Decoration and Ornamentation Arts Ceramics programme in 1957.

Studied in Italy under Italian Gov’t scholarship at Rome Istituto Centrale Del Restauro for five years.

Graduated Rome Medallion Arts School with honours (1962)

Staged dozens of exhibitions domestically and abroad, received several awards.

His creations while working for the State Mint:

  • 1981 Centennary of Ataturk’s birth; Half (½) and whole 1 Lira silver and gold coins (*1)
  • 1981 FAO World Food Day; 16th of October 20 Lira aluminium and 1.500 Lira silver coins
  • 1982 Hicretin 15. Yüzyılı
  • 1982 FAO 16 Ekim Dünya Besin Günü gümüş 1.500 Lira
  • 1982 Dünya İzciliğinin 75. Yılı
  • 1983 Anadolu Medeniyetleri Sergisi 500 Lira küpronikel ve 50.000 Lira altın
  • 1983 Cumhuriyet’in 60. Yılı (İnsan figürlerinin taşıdığı Ay Yıldız desenli yazı tarafı, *2)
  • 1984 Kış Olimpiyatları – Sarajevo, Bosna Hersek
  • 1984 Yaz Olimpiyatları – Los Angeles, ABD
  • 1985 Turgut Reis 500. doğum yılı gümüş 5.000 Lira ve altın 50.000 Lira
  • 1986 Dünya Futbol Şampiyonası – Meksika (kaktüs figürlü gümüş ve altın, ayrıca futbolcu figürlü gümüş, toplam 3 hatıra para)
  • 1986 Mehmet Akif Ersoy 50. Ölüm Yılı
  • 1987 Ormancılığımızın 130 Yılı, “Yeşili Yaşat, Ormanı Koru” sloganlı biri gümüş, biri altın iki hatıra para
  •  1988 Kış Olimpiyatları – Calgary, Kanada
  • 1988 Yaz Olimpiyatları – Seul, Güney Kore
  • 1988 Mavi Haliç, Büyük İstanbul Çevre Koruma Projesi, altın ve gümüş iki hatıra para
  • 1989 İstanbul Metrosu
  • 1989 Mimar Sinan 400. Anma Yılı (1.000 Liralık küpro-nikel, 20.000 Liralık gümüş ve 200.000 Liralık altın)
  • 1990 Çanakkale Zaferi 75. Yıl gümüş ve altın iki hatıra para
  • 1990 Parlamenter Demokraside 70. Yıl gümüş ve altın iki hatıra para
  • 1990 Dünya Futbol Şampiyonası – İtalya (Romus & Romülüs’ü emziren kurt figürlü ve top süren bir futbolcu desenli iki gümüş para)
  • 1991 Mozart 200. Ölüm Yılı – Saraydan Kız Kaçırma Operası – Topkapı Sarayı
  • 1992 500 Years of Peace and Harmony – Turkish Jews (Sefarad Yahudileri Göçü’nün 500. Yıldönümü, küpronikel, gümüş ve altın)
  • 1992 Cioacchino Rossini 200. Doğum Yılı
  • 1992 Muhsin Ertuğrul 100. Doğum Yılı
  • 1993 Türkiye Kızılay Derneği 125. Yıl (gümüş ve altın iki hatıra para)
  • 1993 Cumhuriyet’in 70. Yılı
  • 1993 Pyotr İliç Çaykovskiy 100. Ölüm Yılı
  • 1994 GAP – Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi
  • 1995 25.000 Lira tedavül
  • 1995 25.000 Lira “Dünya Hoşgörü Yılı”
  • 1995 Piri Reis (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 1) (gümüş ve altın iki hatıra para)
  • 1995 FAO 50. Yıl
  • 1996 Yaz Olimpiyatları – Atlanta, ABD
  • 1996 Nasreddin Hoca – UNESCO Dünya Kahkaha Yılı (*3)
  • 1996 Gümrük Birliği – Customs Union
  • 1996 ECU
  • 1997 Piri Reis (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 2) (1995’teki desen ile aynı ancak daha ufak bir altın para)
  • 1997 Çin Seddi ve Toprak Asker Ordusu (İpek Yolu Serisi No: 1)
  • 1997 Mehmet Akif Ersoy 60. Ölüm Yılı
  • 1997 Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi – 1st World Air Games (Dünya Hava Oyunları,750.000 ve 1.500.000 Liralık iki gümüş *3)
  • 1997 Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa Kaptan-ı Derya (Gemiler ve Kaşifler Serisi No: 3)
  • 1997 Lidya Krallığı Kroisos
  • 1997 Myra’lı Aziz Noel Baba € EURO
  • 1998 Dünya Futbol Şampiyonası – Fransa
  • 1998 Cumhuriyet’in 75. Yılı – Cumhuriyet ve Devrimler (Çağdaş Giyim Kuşam, Şapka Devrimi)
  • 1998 Yaz Olimpiyatları 2000 – Halter
  • 1999 Dünyada İlk Para Lidya (altın para 1997 tarihlidir)
  • 1999 Uygur Bölgesi (İpek Yolu Serisi No: 2)
  • 1999 Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Kuruluşunun 700. yılı – Osman Gazi
  • 2000 Bill Clinton’un Ziyareti (gümüş ve bimetal)
  • 2001 Darphane’nin Kuruluşu 1467 Madalyonu
  • 2001 Türkiye’nin Kuşları – Saz Horozu (Porphyrio Porphyrio)
  • 2001 Türkiye’nin Kuşları – Yeşil Arıkuşu (Merops Superciliosus)
  • 2002 Türkiye’nin Çiçekleri – Benekli Yılanyastığı (Arum Maculatum)
  • 2002 Türkiye’nin Çiçekleri – Safran (Crocus Sativus)
  • 2002 Türkiye’nin Çiçekleri – Domuztopalağı (Cyclamen Trochopteranthum)
  • 2002 Yunus Emre “Adımız miskindir bizim, Düşmanımız kindir bizim”
  • 2003 Olimpic Games 2000 – Güreş (altın para 2000 tarihlidir)
  • 2004 İsmet İnönü (Binyılın Türkleri Serisi)
  • 2004 Kanuni Sultan Süleyman (Binyılın Türkleri Serisi)
  • 2005 Çöl Varanı (Türkiye’nin Hayvanları)
  • 2008 İpek Yolu – Kırgızistan (1999 Uygur Bölgesi parasında kullanılan yazı yüzü, *4)
  • 2008 İpek Yolu – Özbekistan (1999 Uygur Bölgesi parasında kullanılan yazı yüzü, *4)
  • 2012 İpek Yolu – Türkmenistan (1999 Uygur Bölgesi parasında kullanılan yazı yüzü, *4)
  • 2013 İpek Yolu – İran (1999 Uygur Bölgesi parasında kullanılan yazı yüzü, *4)
  • 2014 İpek Yolu – Kayseri (1999 Uygur Bölgesi parasında kullanılan yazı yüzü, *4)

Medallions:

  • 1988 Türk Nümismatik Derneği “İsmail Galip Bey” Madalyonu
  • 1999 Türk Nümismatik Derneği “Cüneyt Ölçer” Madalyonu
  • 2001 Darphane’nin Kuruluşu 1467 Madalyonu

[1] Paraların deseni Etem Çalışkan‘a, rölyef ve kalıp uygulaması Hakkı Baha Çavuşgil’e aittir (*27, Sf. 51).

[2] Paranın Atatürk portreli tura tarafı Suat Özyönüm eseridir (*27, Sf. 68).

[3] Paraların deseni Turhan Selçuka, rölyef ve kalıp uygulaması Hakkı Baha Çavuşgil’e aittir (*27, Sf. 153 & 165).

[4] Paraların tura yüzü Tekin Gülbasar‘a aittir.

ilave okuma: https://www.idildergisi.com/makale/pdf/1548617739.pdf

Mehmet Emin Barın (1913 ~ 1987)

Prof. Emin Barın is the calligrapher, bookbinder and graphics artist who designed the coins released for circulation in 1947.

He was born in Bolu, on 2nd of June 1913 as the son of  Mehmed Tevfik Efendi who was also a calligrapher and bookbinder.

As he had a deep interest and talent for painting, he succeeded to enroll to the Arts & Crafts programme at Ankara Gazi Institute in 1934. In 1936 he passed the exam for the talented students to be sent abroad for further education. He attended Turkish Decorative Arts programme at the Academy of Fine Arts as an intern and in 1938 was sent to Germany to study bookbinding under Prof. Dorfner. In 1939, he enrolled Printing and Bookmaking Academy at Leipzig. As a student of Prof. Thiemann, he studied modern typography and under Prof. Wiemeler he studied bookbinding.

With the start of the Second World War, he returned to Türkiye and fulfilled his duty in the army. In 1941, to finalize his studies, he returned to Leipzig and graduated in 1943. After his return to Turkey, he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts Department.

In 1946, he was appointed to design the new coinage. In 1953, as part of the 500th anniversary of the Conquest of Istanbul, he made 10 large plaques for prominent landmarks such as The Topkapı Gate and the Galata Tower.

Also in 1953, he created a special font family for the inscriptions for Anıtkabir (the mosoleum of Atatürk).

His students Etem Çalışkan (who was his assistant during the construction of Anıtkabir) and Abdullah Taşçı have also designed Turkish coins. Emin Barın is also a contemporary professor at the Academy of Fine Arts with Namık Bayık and Vedat Ömer Ar.

Standing, left-to-right: Edip Hakkı, Emin Barın, Namık Bayık, Gevher Bozkurt, Günseli Başar, Sabih Gözen, Bilge Hanım, Hayati Gökay, Aktan Bey, Ramiz Bey. Seated; left-to-right; Vedat Ar, Necmettin Hoca, Kenan Tenizan, Zeki Faik İzer, Tahirzade… (Seramik Dünyası Magazine, March & April issue of 1996. p19 the article about Vedat Ar by Hande Kura

 

 

Cover photo: Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Traditional Turkish Arts virtual exhibition

(https://sanal-sergi.msgsu.edu.tr/emin-barin-sergisi)