[2] After graduating from Galatasaray High School, he was sent to Paris by Halim Paşa to study painting.
He became a student of Jean-Paul and Paul Albert Laurens at the Académie Julian.
Later he continued his education at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Fernand Cormon’s studio.
He was appointed teacher of drawing at the School of Fine Arts in 1919.
In 1933, he joined the staff in the painting department at the school, where he remained until his retirement in 1951.