Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911 – 21 September 1975)[1] was a Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet.

[2][3][4] Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was born in 1911 in Görele on the Black Sea, the second child in a family with five.

[2] Due to his father's position as a Governor, Eyüboğlu lived in various parts of Turkey before attending high school in Trabzon.

He then studied at the Andre Lohte's studio in Paris, where he met his future wife, Eren Eyüboğlu (née Ernestine Leibovici).

He was sent by the government to work in Edirne in 1938 and then in Çorum and Iskilip in 1942, a period that marked a turning point in his artistic career.

Impressed by the Musée de l'Homme's exhibition of African art on a second trip to Paris, he started using woodblock printing in order to allow more people to see his work.

Early works include the frescoes he painted for the Lido Restaurant in Istanbul in 1943, and a large panel he designed for the Ankara Opera House in 1946.

[8] A very comprehensive book (published by Iş Bankası in Turkey, 2008) in both English and Turkish is available with some 250 paintings.