Youssef howayek biography sampler

Lebanese artist

Youssef Saadallah Howayek (Arabic: يوسف حويك; also Yusuf Huwayyik, Hoyek, Hoayek, Hawayek) (1883–1962) was a painter, sculptor and writer from Helta, in modern-day Lebanon.

Career

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

He first travelled to Rome and studied the various forms of art. His first passion was painting.

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Focusing on the cultural shock observed by a young Lebanese mountain dweller in contact with a major European city like Rome.

He later moved to Paris to join Khalil Gibran who had come from the other side of the Atlantic.

Gibran and Howayek had known each other from Lebanon, and became closer friends in Paris being from the same part of the world and the same age. They also had the same passion for painting and sculpture, studying art with Augu