He was born in 1934 in
Istanbul. Between 1949 and 1954 he was educated in the
İDGSA Sculpture Department in the studios of
Rudolf Belling,
Zühtü Müridoğlu and
Ali Hadi Bara. In 1960 he went to Paris with a scholarship from the French government. Between the years 1961 and 1965 he could be found at the École des Beaux-Arts. He studied
sculpture in the studio of
René Collamarini and
gravür in the studio of
W. S. Hayter. In 1965 he started teaching at the
Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty sculpture department. In 1970 he became a docent, and in 1976 a professor. After founding the academies
serigrafi and
gravür studio on the graphics department notable artists graduating from this studio became
Alaettin Aksoy, Aydın Ayan, Hüseyin Bilgin,
Gören Bulut, Gül Derman,
Devrim Erbil, Güngör İblikçi, Gündüz Gönlönü,
Mehmet Güler,
Süleyman Saim Tekcan, Zahit Büyükişleyen,
Erol Deneç, Nail Peyza,
Ergin İnan, Utku Varlık, Mustafa Pilevneli,
Hasan Pekmezci, Hayati Misman,
Fevzi Karakoç, Hüsamettin Koçan, Atilla Atar, Ali İsmail Türemen, Kadri Özayten'in. He died on 23 February 2018. His burial was at
Nakkaştepe Cemetery. == Art ==