Achnaton Nassar
Article on the artist in the Dutch art magazine "Kunstbeeld",
February 2002, text by Hans Sizoo


Exhibition
February 2002, frontgallery


Exhibition
February 2002, backgallery
Achnaton Nassar
1952, Qena, Egypt.
Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria Univ. Bachelor's Degree
"Excellent", 1977.
Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo Univ. Postgraduate Degree "Excellent",
1979.
Faculty of Architecture, Aristotle Univ. Salonika, Greece, 1980.
Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, 1984.
Arts grant of the Dutch Government, 1995/98.
Prizes
Uriot Prize 1983 And 1984.
Europe Prize for Painting 1993.
Collections
Several musea, local council and private collections in Holland.
Other Activities
Poems for radio Alexandria, 1975/77.
Contributions to the art section of Egyptian daily newspapers (AI Messa, AI
Gomhouriya, AI Ahram), from 1975 onwards.
Contributions to Arabic immigrant media in Holland, 1986/88.
Publications
The Changes, drawings in ink, a book published by the Rijksacademie in
Amsterdam.
Camel for Rembrandt, drawings, a book published by the Amsterdam City Council in
1993.
Quotations from the Dutch press
... an enrichment of the Dutch world of art, this Nassar.
(Mark Peeters, NRC Handelsblad, 12 March 1993)
... the image, clear and eloquent, must touch and adress the viewer without
neglecting the confusion.
(Hans Sizoo, Kunstbeeld, march 1993)
... by guarding his work from drawing in esthetics only, Nassar keeps the
tension in the image alive.
(Jan Bart Klaster, het Parool, 3 march 1993)
... Nassar's charming art of drawing. (Thea Figee, Kunstbeeld, march 1992)