WAbdulmejid II was the last Caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty, nominally the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924.
WAhmet Ziya Akbulut was a Turkish landscape and architectural painter.
WHoca Ali Rıza was a Turkish painter and art teacher, known primarily for his Impressionist landscapes and architectural paintings.
WAvni Arbaş was a Turkish painter of Circassian descent.
WAliye Berger was a Turkish artist, engraver, and painter. Berger is one of the first engravers of Turkish Republic. She is known for her expressionist engravings and winning the painting competition of Yapı Kredi Bank in 1954.
Wİbrahim Çallı was a Turkish painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim.
WBedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was a Turkish painter and poet.
WAhmet Güneştekin is a Turkish visual artist of Kurdish descent, whose works span painting, conceptual art and constructions sculpture. For Ahmet Güneştekin, a self-taught artist, art is a passion which has driven him since his childhood. He left the town of Batman for Istanbul in 1991, but had to wait several years before he found his own style at the beginning of the 2000s. He then abandoned the figurative to launch himself into a “narrative abstraction”. This kind of production is loaded with the recollection of a vernacular art, the memory of motifs such as carpets, lamps, Ottoman copperware in which geometry is the leading force.
WHalil Pasha, was a Turkish painter and art teacher. He was one of Turkey's first Impressionists.
WNamık İsmail was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator, who received his training in France.
WMüfide Kadri Hanım was a Turkish painter and composer; one of the first female artists in Turkey and the first professional female art teacher in the Ottoman Empire. She created mostly portraits and scenes with figures.
WErcüment Kalmık was an artist and art historian, known for his work in studying the lyrical-abstract Turkish painters.
WHüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is best known for landscapes with architectural features.
WMustafa Haluk Güçlü was a Turkish painter known for his paintings depicting Turkish culture and mythology. Guclu was also a portrait artist.
WYervant Voskan, also known as Osgan Efendi was a renowned Ottoman painter, sculptor, instructor, and administrator of Armenian descent. He is considered the first sculptor of Turkey.
WOsman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, known today as the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts.
WHasan Rıza (1857–1913) was an Ottoman painter, soldier, and government official.
WSüleyman Seyyid Bey was a Turkish painter and art teacher, primarily known for his still-lifes.
WHedi Turki was a Tunisian artist of Turkish origin. He is considered to have been the pioneering force of abstract painting in Tunisia and was an influential member of the School of Tunis. His younger brother was Zoubeir Turki, who died in 2009.
WZoubeir Turki was a Tunisian painter and sculptor of Turkish origin. He was the younger brother of Hedi Turki (1922–2019).
WTaylan Ünal is a Turkish artist who lives in Istanbul. His work includes oil paintings, drawings and street art.
WYervant Voskan, also known as Osgan Efendi was a renowned Ottoman painter, sculptor, instructor, and administrator of Armenian descent. He is considered the first sculptor of Turkey.
WFahrelnissa Zeid was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings with kaleidoscopic patterns. Also using drawings, lithographs, and sculptures, her work blended elements of Islamic and Byzantine art with abstraction and other influences from the West. Zeid was one of the first women to go to art school in Istanbul. She lived in different cities and became part of the avant-garde scenes in Istanbul, pre-war Berlin and post-war Paris. Her work has been exhibited at various institutions in Paris, New York, and London, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1954. In the 1970s, she moved to Amman, Jordan, where she established an art school. In 2017, Tate Modern in London organized a major retrospective of the artist and called her "one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century". Her largest work to be sold at auction, Towards a Sky (1953), sold for just under one million pounds in 2017.
WHüseyin Zekai Pasha was an Ottoman Turkish painter of landscapes, architectural scenes and still-lifes.