Hamed Ewais (1919 - 2011)

Hamed Ewais

Hamed Ewais is an egyptian artist. Ewais graduated from the Cairo’s School of Fine Arts in 1944, later he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, returning to teach at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria. Ewais was of the founders of the Group of Modern Art in 1947 along with several artists. In 1956, he was awarded the Guggenheim International Prize. Influenced by key figures of Mexican muralism such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Ewais chose to work in an aesthetic style that reflected his socialist political leanings. As one of Egypt’s leading social realist painters, Ewais highlighted the plight of the country’s working class and was a proponent of Nasser’s Pan Arab movement.

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