 Hassan
Mohyeddine Alameddine
(1939 - 2007)
Biography:
Hassan Alameddine was born in June 1939 in Beirut.
He received his early training in Beirut, where he learned the basic
theory and technique at a young age from established artist Rachid
Wehbe.
He graduated from the Lebanese University in Beirut from the Faculty
of Business Administration and Economics with a degree in Public
Administration and Finance in 1962.
He served his country in Public Office at the Ministry of Finance
in Beirut until his retirement in 1997.
He really launched his artistic carrier late in his life in the
1994 in his early 60s.
He suffered a major brain stroke that left his right side partially
paralyzed with total paralysis of the right arm in 2001.
He overcame
his disability by training and becoming skillful in painting with
his left hand, encouraged by his wife and muse Janan in 2003.
He dedicated
the last 13 years of his life to his art and passed away in February
2007.
Solo
Exhibitions:
2001 - Golf club of Lebanon, Beirut-Lebanon.
2004 - Glass Room, Ministry of Tourism, Beirut-Lebanon.
2008 - Unesco Palace 28 April, 2008 to 2 May, 2008.
Joint
Exhibitions:
2004 - Exhibition Hall of the Sacred Cross, the “Rhythms of Color”
Exhibition, Damascus-Syria.
2007 - Unesco Palace Exhibition Halls, the “Scream” Exhibition,
Beirut-Lebanon.
2007 - Mar Antonios Gardens “Lebanon: Art and Peace” Exhibition,
Jdeidé-Lebanon.
2008 - During Byblos Festival, Jbeil Byblos.
2008 - St Nicolas Stairs, Daraj el Fan in Gemayzeh, Beirut.
A glimpse
of the painter (Written by the Painter himself in the year 2000)
Nationality:
Lebanese
Place and date of Birth: Born in Beirut-Lebanon in 1933
Education: Graduated from the Lebanese University... with a degree
that has nothing to do with Art (This degree allowed him to focus
on a career in public administration, at that time and for many
years to come; painting was far beyond his reach).
He spent his life lost, dreaming of becoming an artist. He never
joined any art school.
He knew that great art could not be taught at a school, university
or at any place else for that matter.
Art, in his opinion, is a seed that grows in the being without any
need for emotions or willpower.
Art is like the scent that emanates so naturally and effortlessly
from the flowers which do not have feelings about it.
One day, he decided to be a painter... and to start painting.
And from that day he did not do anything else but paint.
That decision had only one cause (His wife and muse Janan is the
women the painter refers to.)
"A Woman"
H Alameddine
Alameddine,
asks God to give him more time so he can draw his muse and dream
partner, Janan: "I am practing portrait drawing because I want
to draw
Janan in a way that reflects her true identity." With a voice
overcome with tears he says: "After that, I don't care if I
die the same day."
Laha Magazine
Talent is truly
a rare and precious thing, when it is nurtured it transforms into
a blessing to the artist, to the loved ones around him to the fine
art seekers all over the world. Hassan Alameddine was a great painter,
who really bloomed near the end of his life, when he fell in love
and married his muse. He later on overcame partial paralysis by
using his left hand when his right arm was paralyzed by a brain
stroke, for he could not imagine his life without his art and he
also knew how much his beautiful painting meant to his beloved muse.
The shear simplicity and beauty of his paintings are a true witness
to his great talent.
Prophet Moses - 1993 - size 146 x 100 cm - Oil on canvas
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Some of the artist's artwork
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