Ziad Zukkari

He discovered the atelier of the painter Akram Khalqi located close to Arnous avenue in the neighborhood of Al-Salihiya, and he spent hours there.

[1][3] While he was an employee with the Syrian Ministry of Culture, he made study trips in all governorates in order to systematically document the national heritage.

[1] When Zukkari was a teenager, he participated in a fine arts exhibition in Damascus with a charcoal representation of a tiger hunting scene in ancient India.

While the head of state (under French mandate), Taj al-Din al-Hasani, was delivering a speech during the inauguration ceremony, he made his portrait with pencil.

As a teenager, Zukkari found in a magazine a reproduction of a young lady in traditional costume from the region of Hauran, and he noticed many imperfections.

[1] Zukkari's main contribution was to represent folk costumes in their context, by including on his canvas local monuments, whether archaeologic or historic, and handicrafts such as objects used for traditional Arabic coffee.

In 1957, on the occasion of the national day of the commemoration of the independence of Syria, he designed a postal stamp representing the President of the Republic Shukri al-Quwatli.

[4] A quasi-exhaustive collection of paintings representing with a perfect realism well-known monuments and sites attracted the interest of producers of postcards.