![]() Exhibiting in New York since the early 1980s and in Istanbul since 1997, his work can be found in numerous private, corporate and public collections. His work is a record of facts, thoughts, observations and memories. The artistic practice of Peter predominantly revolves around immigration and functions like a journal. So, although he thought of moving the factory outside of the country, he finally established another factory in Bahçelieveler, renaming it "Mi-Bo," after the nicknames of his sons.Ī photo from Ka-Bo sock factory from the exhibition. 6-7, Peter feared that there would be no further business opportunity for them as a minority in Istanbul. Therefore, Peter accepted to manage the factory and the "Ka-Bo" sock factory, employing more than 180 workers, was established in Aksaray.Īfter the Wealth Tax in 1942 and the Istanbul Pogrom on Sept. Though Peter was seeing the world through the eyes of an artisan, it was hard to live as a Bulgarian artist in Istanbul in those years. After Peter's move to Istanbul, Dimiter and Müller saw the opportunities of Turkey's Industrial Promotion Law and established a sock company that Peter would manage. While Peter's father, Dimiter, was in the textile business in Sofia, he partnered with Swiss textile manufacturer Hartman Müller. The photos recorded a changing city and vestiges of its past.Īs Peter was an artistic soul, the most interesting thing I learned about him was his sock factory. Then, he began clicking various photos that were somewhere between painterly and documentarily in terms of their style. Upon his arrival in Istanbul, Peter also painted the city en Plein air therefore, his earliest work documenting Istanbul was through oil paintings. A few months later, Dimiter put his stepdaughter Sofia on the Orient Express and sent her to Istanbul so that she could marry Peter in Istanbul.Īn envgraving by Peter Dimiter Hristoff. He arrived in Istanbul in 1923, and in a short time, he found a teaching job at the Bulgarian Secondary School in Kumkapı. Before he left Sofia, Peter told his father that he was in love with his stepsister Viktorya and wanted to marry her. During this period, Peter's political views matured and he became a member of the young anti-tsarist Agrarian Party.Īfter one of his friends persuaded him that he was in danger due to his political views and should leave for Istanbul. Upon this advice, Peter reconciled with his father and studied printmaking with great Czech artist Josef Peter and painting with Maestro Dimitrov. After the photographer recognized Peter's talent, he convinced him to return to his father's home and enroll in the Sofia Fine Arts Academy. However, during his high school years, he found a part-time job as an apprentice to a photographer. With the trauma of the Balkan Wars and his mother's death, Peter initially could not accept his father's second marriage and went to live with his aunt. Peter Dimiter Hristoff's Istanbul tours in the 1930s. ![]() In the later period, Dimiter managed to enter the flourishing textile industry and received great success. ![]() ![]() ![]() He, who did not even have a name and was called "Garden Boy," decided to take "Dimiter" as his name at puberty and left the house of his guardians to live in Thessaloniki, where he immediately found a job as a clock apprentice. Tushe's father, Dimiter, was orphaned as a baby in Kilkis and taken by a family so that he could help with the chores. Nicknamed Tushe, Peter Dimiter was born in 1898 as the only child of Dimiter and Velica in Thessaloniki. Following the video, which offers an insight into the experience of "Memento Istanbul: Hristoff Family Archive," the part dedicated to Peter Dimiter Hristoff, the first generation of the family, directly welcomes visitors. Curated by artist Peter Hristoff, who is also a member of the exhibition's family, together with Elif Erdoğan and Yeşim Demir Pröhl, the exhibition starts with the introductory video of Peter on the second floor of the Yapı Kredi complex. ![]()
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