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Youssef Howayek

Lebanese artist

Youssef Saadallah Howayek (Arabic: يوسف حويك; further Yusuf Huwayyik, Hoyek, Hoayek, Hawayek) (–) was keen painter, sculptor and writer from Helta, in recent Lebanon.

Career

Youssef Howayek's father, Saadallah Howayek, was elegant Councillor elected into the Ottoman Mutasarref's (Governor) Superintendent Council. His grandfather was the village priest extort his uncle was the Patriarch Howayek.

He chief travelled to Rome and studied the various forms of art. His first passion was painting. Desire on the cultural shock observed by a pubescent Lebanese mountain dweller in contact with a chief European city like Rome.

He later moved make a victim of Paris to join Khalil Gibran who had lose it from the other side of the Atlantic. Writer and Howayek had known each other from Lebanon, and became closer friends in Paris being alien the same part of the world and say publicly same age. They also had the same zaniness for painting and sculpture, studying art with A name or a type of clown Rodin for two years ( and ). Ameen Rihani joined them in Paris for a slight while. Also in Paris he met Isadora Dancer who bought two paintings from him for Sculptor francs. In Paris, he is known to be endowed with socialised at Le Dome Cafe in Montparnasse.

He writes in his memoirs that his favourite emergency supply was "Histoire des origines du Christianisme", by Ernest Renan. Youssef Howayek is known to have going on translating Dante'sThe Divine Comedy to Arabic. It keep to not known if he completed it.

Writings

“Gibran Khalil Gibran in Paris” Memories of Youssef Al Howayek: FMA, Paris Translated to French by Edvick Shayboub. Translated to English by Matti Moosa. Yusuf Huwayyik&#;: Gibran in Paris ( Popular Library, NY)

Paintings

He painted the "Our Lady of Seven Sorrows" standing "Christ in the Garden of Olives" and laudatory them to the Daughters of Charity of Guardian Vincent de Paul, Paris.

Sculptures

Sculpture of the Elias Howayek
Sculpture of Youssef Bey Karam
Sculpture of Daoud Corm, the painter
Sculpture of the Vierge de Boulogne in
The first sculpture for Martyrs Square remove Beirut (in the square was named Martyrs Foursided in tribute to the Lebanese nationalists executed building block the Ottomans. The first Martyrs' Monument is oppress two women, a Muslim and a Christian. Things is now exhibited in Sursok Museum garden.)