- Agegnehu Engida
Agegnehu Engida (1905 in
Mahdere Maryam - 1950cite web| url=http://www.nordicafricainstitute.com/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/m/ORTMAA.pdf | title=ORTMAA | accessdate=2008-05-28] ) was aEthiopia nmodern art ist who blended abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, but maintained a style that was "distinctively Ethiopian."cite web| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Continuity+and+change:+three+generations+of+Ethiopian+artists.-a0165575757 | title=Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists | accessdate=2008-05-28]As part of Emperor
Haile Selassie education program, Engida was granted a government scholarship for to study at theEcole des Beaux-Arts inParis, France from 1926 to 1933.cite web| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Continuity+and+change:+three+generations+of+Ethiopian+artists.-a0165575757 | title=Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists | accessdate=2008-05-28] After his return fromEurope , Engida had many art exhibitions. He also worked on commissions formilitary uniform s, birr currency designs, churchmural s and portraits.cite web| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Continuity+and+change:+three+generations+of+Ethiopian+artists.-a0165575757 | title=Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists | accessdate=2008-05-28]In 1941 Engida became the assistant director of Ethiopia's new Department of Fine Arts in the Ministry of Education and Fine Arts.cite web| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Continuity+and+change:+three+generations+of+Ethiopian+artists.-a0165575757 | title=Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists | accessdate=2008-05-28]
He who died of unknown causes in 1950 shortly after finishing the painting "Twelve Donkeys".cite web| url=http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~zerihun/esseye.html | title=Zerihun Yetmgeta: An Ethiopian Modernist | accessdate=2008-05-28]
Two of his portraits are in the
National Museum of Ethiopia , a self portrait and a portrait ofAster Mengesha .cite web| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Continuity+and+change:+three+generations+of+Ethiopian+artists.-a0165575757 | title=Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists | accessdate=2008-05-28]References
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