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(1)Published Ministry of Culture:
Nazem Al Jaafari: the founding pioneer, Damascus 2006, p. 273. Dr. Ghazi Al Khalidi
(2)Web Site and biography: Under Construction
Portraitist Nazem Al Jaafari ( المصور الزيتي ناظم الجعفري)
Nazem Al Jaafari was born in 1918 in Damascus - Syria is considered the founder of the artistic movement in the country. One of his greatest achievements as an artist is the documentation of the old quarters of Damascus as it existed at the turn of the twentieth century including life styles, designs, fashion, etc…. His depiction consist of over 7000 drawings all still part of the artist’s collection as he rarely sells his work, this was mentioned in one of the publication about the artist’s life.
“Nazem Al Jaafari was one of the pioneer impressionists of Syrian painting. Impressionism remained the most popular style in Syria both before and after the Second World War. Al Jaafari was a recluse and seldom sold any of his work because he was hoping the state would build a museum devoted to him.”