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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Muhammad Wafa Al-Dajjani is a Palestinian visual artist and sculptor (born in Jerusalem in 1914). He studied at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Cairo and graduated in 1936, where he studied interior design and oil painting. After 1936 and until 1948, he studied drawing, carpentry, and modeling at the Arab College, the Rashidiya School, and the Omariya School in Jerusalem .
Professional life
He succeeded in drawing people: pastel, oil, watercolor, and sketches. One of his most famous models is the three-dimensional map of Palestine in 1945, which was distributed to all schools in Palestine. He worked in making gypsum illustration models and participated in school exhibitions. Since 1948, he moved as an immigrant to Damascus , where he worked in museums (General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums - Restoration Department in the Technical Laboratory).
His works
The most important works for him that he performed:
Completing and recreating the entrance to the Temple of (Tell Halaf - Al-Khabour) at the entrance to the National Museum of Aleppo , which was discovered by a German in 1914 who stole half of the temple to Berlin , but it was burned during the war. He studied the temple well, as well as what the Germans wrote about it. He worked for three years with only three workers. Muhammad Wafa Al-Dajjani was able to formulate a work of art from the remains of German plaster pieces.Display designs in most Syrian museums (wooden or metal cabinets).
Models of ancient buildings: the Roman Theater of Bosra (23 meters long and 100 meters in diameter), and the reconstruction of a model of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, as well as: the Temple of Baal Shamin, the Al-Hosn Castle, which is one of the French Crusader castles, and the Temple of Baalbek.
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