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Born: Mif Ghamr, Dakahlia, 7 April 1937
Halim Yacoub has worked in numerous forms of the creative arts - he has been a stage and interior designer, has designed postage stamps and paper currency, he has been a ceramist, a designer of enameled silver jewelry, a painter and a sculptor. However, it may be for the latter two art forms - painting and sculpting - that Yacoub has received the most recognition. Yacoub has executed the large metal monuments that adorn the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabi but his most outstanding creations are the small metal sculptures which are generally no more dm 10 to 30 centimeters in height. No matter how humble is the subject of the small statue, each is characterized by an expressiveness that radiates a dignity and an eloquence making them seem larger than they actually are. A characteristic of Yacoub's work is the imprint of his fingers which he makes on the soft wax just prior to molding, imparting a touch of the human spirit and of the strong emotions present at the moment he forms the sculpture.
Yacoub entered the Cairo Faculty of Fine Arts in 1955, where he studied design in the Department of Interior Design. After his graduation in 1960 he worked at the Postal Press until he received a Fellowship in 1964.
He studied chalcography (engraving on steel), and bank note design and printing at the Zurich Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, graduating in 1967.
It was during the years 1981 to 1985 that Yacoub collaborated with Salah Abdel Karim in the creation of the seven large metal statues in Jeddah and he also designed the gold medal for the centenary of the Egyptian
National Bank. There have been six private exhibitions of his work in Egypt, France and Italy and he has participated in collective exhibits in Europe and the Middle East.
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