| LC control no. | n 84111879 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Afewerk Tekle |
| Variant(s) | Afewerk Tekele Afework Tekle Tekle, Afewerk |
| Associated country | Ethiopia |
| Associated place | England Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1932-10-22 |
| Death date | 2012-04-10 |
| Place of birth | Ankober (Ethiopia) |
| Place of death | Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) |
| Affiliation | Central School of Arts and Crafts (London, England) Slade School of Fine Art Galleria degli Uffizi |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Sculptors Artists |
| Found in | His Afewerk Tekle, 1973: p. 1, etc. (Ethiopian artist, in his late thirties) The Reporter (Addis Ababa), Apr. 14, 2012: (Afewerk Tekle: d. Apr. 10, 2012; age 80) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Afewerk, Tekle; painter; born 1932 in Ankober, Ethiopia; received the emperor's permission to transfer to London's Central School of Arts and Crafts; attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London; his first solo exhibition of paintings was in Addis Ababa at Municipality Hall (1954); won the Prix de Rome award (1955); was the first recipient of the Haile Selassie Prize Trust Award (1964); his Self-Portrait was the first work of art by an artist from the African continent to be acquired for the permanent collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (1981); his paintings are in the National Museum of Ethiopia, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution; his first major commission from the Ethiopian government was for murals and mosaics at St. George's Cathedral, Addis Ababa; designed a stained glass window for the Africa Hall of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa (1959); was invited to exhibit his work and to lecture in the United States, the Soviet Union, and numerous countries of Europe and Africa (1960s); designed his imposing house - Villa Alpha (1959) which functions as a museum of his works and career) Wikipedia, April 11, 2022 (Afewerk Tekle; born 22 October 1932; died 10 April 2012, Addis Ababa; known for painting, sculpture) Afewerk Tekle : an exhibition of paintings, drawings..., 1961: front cover (Afewerk Teklé) back cover (Afework Teklè) The weekly round up, Saturday supplement, September no. 19 [1966?]: title page (Afewerk Tekle, artist of our time) page 5 (Afework Tekle) photo caption (the garden of Afewerk Tekele) |
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