The death of the owner of the statue of Salah al-Din in Damascus .. the Syrian sculptor Abdullah al-Sayed
The Syrian Ministry of Culture mourned the sculptor Abdullah Al-Sayed, who is one of Syria's most prominent plastic artists, and the owner of the famous statue of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in the capital, Damascus.
The Syrian news agency, SANA, described al-Sayed as “one of the figures of Syrian plastic art,” and indicated in a brief published about him that he was born in the city of Masyaf (the countryside of Hama), in 1941, and graduated in the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 1971, and obtained a degree Diploma in Advanced Studies in Aesthetics in 1977 in Paris and a certificate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1980.
The agency added that al-Sayed, with his studies of fine arts, studied at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Damascus University in 1965, and worked as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and head of the sculpture department there, and a professor of aesthetics and criticism in graduate studies at the faculty.
According to SANA, Al-Sayyed executed many memorials and statues in many Syrian cities, the most famous of which is the monument of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in Damascus in 1992 and the monument to the martyrs in Daraa in 1990. He also carried out the monument to Noah's Ark of Damascus in the city of Dallas in the United States of America in 2001, according to the agency.
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