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Bara, Ali Hadi
(b Tehran, 19 Sept 1906; d Istanbul, 1971). Turkish sculptor. His family moved to Turkey when he was young. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul (1923–7) and after graduating went to Paris on a bursary, where he studied sculpture under Henri Bouchard at the Académie Julian and then under Charles Despiau. On returning to Turkey (1930) he became an assistant teacher at the Fine Arts Academy. During the 1930s he worked on the Adana Monument (1935) and the monument to Atatürk (1937) at the military residence in Istanbul. With Zühtü Müridoglu he also worked on the statue of the 16th-century Ottoman admiral Barbarossa in Besiktas, Istanbul, which was erected in 1946 on the 400th anniversary of Barbarossa’s death, and the monument of Atatürk and Ismet Inönü on Horseback in Zonguldak. He visited Paris again between 1949 and 1950 when he was inspired by non-figural sculpture, which thereafter took precedence in his work. After returning to Istanbul, he taught sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy with Müridoglu until ill-health forced him to retire. In addition to statues and monuments, he produced portrait busts and nudes; his non-figural sculptures were made of steel rods, sheet metal and other materials. Bara participated in a number of international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennales of 1956 and 1958, the São Paulo Biennales of 1957 and 1961 and the second Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine at the Musée Rodin, Paris, in 1961.
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