Sabri Berkel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sabri Berkel

Albanian artist, painter and print maker

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1907

Place of Birth: Skopje, Skopje Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1993

Profession: painter

Nationality: Albania

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sabri Fetah Berkel (1907–1993) was a Turkish-Albanian modernist painter; he was one of the most important painters and academic personalities of the last century in Turkey. Berkel was born in Skopje, where, in 1927, he completed high school at a French lyceum.
From 1927 to 1928 he studied at an Art School in Belgrade.
From 1929–1935 he finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. Sabri Fetahu Berkel visited his country Albania in 1982 where he met with his family and parents.
Berkel died in Istanbul.
In the honor of Turkish talented painter Sabri Berkel from Turkey, NASA decided to name the Berkel, or the well known print maker, and it is a complex crater that sits inside of the larger Ellington basin that indicates the presence of dark material at depth of its surface.