Jumana El Husseini, (2 April 1932 – 11 April 2018) was a Palestinian painter and sculptor who lived in Paris. She won many medals and has an extensive international exhibition record. Jumana El Husseini died in her home in Paris on 11 April 2018 at the age of 86.

She studied painting, sculpture and ceramics in Beirut and Paris. Noted for figurative paintings of Palestinian women and geometric houses in Jerusalem and Jericho, her style evolved from realistic to geometric and, since 1987, to abstract, with wavelike overpainted drawings evoking Arabic calligraphy.

Jumana El Husseini

See also

Palestinian art

References

External links

Jumana El Husseini's website

I am from Palestine website

Je suis de la Palestine website

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

1932 births

2018 deaths

Palestinian painters

Palestinian women painters

Calligraphers of Arabic script

Artists from Jerusalem

Palestinian contemporary artists

Palestinian expatriates in France

Women calligraphers

20th-century calligraphers

Jumana El Husseini