Hassan Hakim

The artist, Hakim is of Sudanese origin, was born in the village of Sheba in northern Sudan, then was raised in Egypt and grew up in different areas between the small city of Anshas and the city of Cairo.

• Date of Birth: 26/06/1929
• Date of death: 7/11/1998
• On March 15, 1956, he married his wife, Zainab Al-Kurdi
• He has three daughters: Mona (she died young), Yasmine and Rabab

Education

• BA, College of Fine Arts, Sudan, 1958

Work

• Drawing in Dar Al-Hilal magazines: Al-Musawwar, Al-Mondayn, Al-Dunya, Eve, Al-Kawakib, Mickey and Samir.
• Worked as a political cartoonist for Al-Gomhouria newspaper 1952
• He worked as a political cartoonist for Al-Massa newspaper 1956
• Participated in an Egyptian cinematic work “Titi and Rashwan” with the artists Mustafa Hussein and Abdel Halim Al-Borgini. This work deals with the art of cartoons in Egyptian cinema. It was produced by the Cinema Foundation under the supervision of the late film director Ahmed Badr Khan in 1957.
• Selected to work for German television in 1960.
• One of the founders of Karawan magazine, a children’s magazine, which was published weekly by Dar Al-Tahrir for printing and publishing in January 1964, headed by Numan Ashour, editor-in-chief, Mustafa Ramzy, with the logo of Girls and Boys magazine. He was among its main painters with Hakim Al-Labbad, Nabil Taj, Wahba Enayat, Magdy Najib, Bahgat and Mustafa Ramzy.
• He was chosen in 1966 as a technical advisor in the State of Kuwait and worked as a director and painter in Al-Arabi magazine 1964 and lived there for 28 years. He also worked as a press painter in Al-Musawwar, Al-Kawakib, Eve, Samir, Karawan, Kuwait Magazine, Al-Araby Al-Saghir Magazine.
• Worked as a painter and technical advisor for Caricature Magazine – Egypt 1991.