Omar Onsi
(1901-1969)
lebanese artist
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Omar Onsi (1901-1969) (Arabic: عمر أنسي); was a pioneer of modern painting in Lebanon and Lebanon's most renowned impressionist painter. He was born in Tallet Al-Khayat, Beirut in 1901. His father, Dr. Abdul Rahman El Ounsi, was a prominent general practitioner, had been one of the first Beirut Muslims to study modern Western medicine and his mother came from the prominent Sunni Muslim family Salam, who notably dressed in Western attire. He was named after his paternal grandfather, the scholarly poet, Omar, who was well known in Beirut.
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1901 Tallet Al-Khayat, Beirut, Lebanon
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1969 (aged 67) Beirut, Lebanon
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