The Egyptian Artists Syndicate has named the artist Sami Rafie, who died on Tuesday for 88 years after a long career, during which he presented works reminiscent of rare national memories, including the monument to the Unknown Soldier in Cairo.
The union, which was one of its founders, said the consolation will be held at the union's headquarters on the campus of the Egyptian Opera House in Cairo.
Atelier described Cairo as a "landmark in the history of contemporary art".
He was born in 1931 and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. He then traveled to Vienna for a scholarship to study decoration before returning to resume his academic career in Egypt.
He has participated in dozens of exhibitions inside Egypt and abroad, and his work has acquired many museums, institutions and major bodies in Egypt, Germany and Austria, and has also published some works in the field of plastic art.
He managed the stage of the Egyptian Opera House and designed dozens of major performances such as Aida Opera in 1984 at the Republic Theater.
One of which is the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo and the other on the occasion of the passage of the subway under the Nile River. It also designed 17 memorials and murals of the second line of the subway, in addition to more than 40 book covers. 180 cm in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1992.
The late restoration and beautification of the historic area of the obelisk next to Cairo International Airport (Ramses II) from 2000 to 2004, and the implementation of the monument to the city of Sadat, located on the road of Egypt Alexandria Desert, where the word Sadat was carved in prominent letters in 1980.
His outstanding work, which won the first prize of the State, remains the memorial of the Unknown Soldier in Cairo, which commemorates the martyrs of the War of Attrition and the War of October 6, 1973.