[2][3] He completed his primary education in Edirne, where his father Miralay Hüsnü, an Ottoman Army officer in the rank of Colonel, was stationed.
[1][2] In 1913, he entered "Higher School of Fine Arts" (Ottoman Turkish: Sanayi-i Nefise Mekteb-i Âlisi), today Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University to study painting.. As the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, he was conscripted at the age of 17.
[4] He noted that "he learned the impressionist painting because Çallı and his colleagues studied in Paris, France, and they were the first painters, who brought this art movement to Turkey".
[2] Starting with İleri, he worked later for the dailies İkdam, İfham, Milliyet, Tan, Son Telgraf and Cumhuriyet, writing articles on arts forty years long.
[4] In 1940, he went to Samsun —where Atatürk had set foot in 1919 to start the Turkish War of Independence, and participated at the second state exhibition with paintings he created there.
At a time when the World War II intensified, he was conscripted for reserve service in Balıkesir.
[1] His participation at mixed exhibitions abroad were in Budapest, Athens, Bucharest, Moscow, Brussels, London and Paris.
Elif Naci held his personal exhibitions followed in 1944, at Eminönü Halkevi in 1947, in 1949 and in the entrance of Galatasaray High School in 1951.
He held a private exhibition and gave a conference on the Turkish arts in Baghdad, Iraq , where he went as per the cultural agreement.