Souhila Belbahar

Algerian painter (1934–2023)

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Souhila Belbahar
سهيلة بلبحار

Born	(1934-02-17)17 February 1934 Blida, French Algeria
Died	23 March 2023(2023-03-23) (aged 89)

Souhila Belbahar (alternatively Souhila Bel Bahar;^[1] 17 February 1934 – 23 March 2023) was an Algerian painter. In 2018, she was awarded Algeria's National Order of Merit.

Biography

Belbahar was born in Blida, Algeria, in 1934.^[2]^[1]^[3] A self-taught artist,^[2] she held her first exhibition in 1971, at the age of 37.^[3] Since that time, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Algiers.^[2] The Algerian Cultural Centre in Paris hosted a solo exhibition of Belbahar's works in 1986.^[4]

Belbahar exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers in 1984.^[2] The museum held a retrospective exhibition of her works in 2008.^[3] In 2016, the museum published Il pleut des jasmins sur Alger, a biography of Belbahar written by her daughter, Dalila Hafiz.^[1]

In 2018, Belbahar was awarded the National Order of Merit by the Algerian Minister of Culture, Azzedine Mihoubi.^[5]

Belbahar died on 23 March 2023, at the age of 89.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Amokrane, Imène (14 December 2016). "Plongée dans l'univers de l'artiste Souhila Bel Bahar: Toute l'actualité sur liberte-algerie.com". Liberté (in French). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Belbahar, Souhila". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 13 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00015442. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Baba-Hadji, Farouk (29 May 2008). "La peinture est mon refuge". Le Midi (in French). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ Grand Maghreb (in French). Centre d'information sur le Grand Maghreb. 1986. p. 15.
^ "Des médailles de l'ordre du mérite décernées à des hommes de lettre, intellectuels et artistes algériens et étrangers". Algérie Presse Service (in French). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ L'artiste peintre Souhila Belbahar n'est plus (in French)