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Hamid Aytaç

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Born Sheikh Musa Azmi, in 1891 in Diyarbakır, his paternal great-grandfather was the calligrapher Adem-i Amidi. In international circles, he is also known as Hamid Al Amidi. Some of his works may be found to be signed as Azmi. He is known by the
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and he briefly worked for the German Map Department in Berlin. Following the war, he opened his own commercial studio in Istanbul which he After the named
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times. In his later life, he was acknowledged as the Islamic world's leading
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Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı Collection,
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district, Istanbul. He was the last of the Ottoman calligraphers.
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In the tradition of the great calligrapher Ali bin Hilal known as
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and was one of the last of the classical calligraphers.
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He worked at the Harb School, for the Customs House in
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Hamid Aytac (Azmi, Musa; al-Amidi, Hamid) (1891-1982)
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His works are on display in many countries including
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