Full Name: Shammout, Ismail
Gender: male
Date Born: 1930
Place Born: Lod, Central District, Israel
Home Country/ies: Palestine
Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)
Overview
Painter and art historian. He was born in Lod, also known as Lydda, Palestine, which is present day Israel. The first Palestinian to enroll in the College of Fine Arts in Cairo. Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome. Painted subjects demonstrating how Palestinians dealt with the loss of their homeland.
Selected Bibliography
Art in Palestine. Kuwait City, 1989.
Sources
The Dictionary of Art