CAIRO: Artist and painter Mohamed Hamed Eiwes died Saturday in Cairo at 92-years-old after fighting illness for years. He was a leader in the realism Communists art movement in Egypt that flourished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Eiwes graduated from Fine Arts College in 1944 and had been a very influential figure in the Egyptian art scene in the last half century. He is best known for his painting of workers with bulky figures highlighting their struggles and emphasizing on the industrial uprising during the Gamal Abdel Nasser era. He worked as an art professor at Fine Arts College in Alexandria and was a supervisor on the Fine Art Museum in the coastal city. He received many honorary awards from Egypt and other countries and his paintings hang in museums around the world including the Modern Art Museum in Berlin, Oriental Art Museum in Moscow and the Modern Art Museum in Cairo. BM
