D Grubu

The D Grubu is an artist collective founded in Istanbul, Turkey in 1933 by five painters and one sculptor. The group is considered Turkey's first contemporary art movement.

1930's

The group is the fourth fine arts collective established in Turkey after the Ottoman Painters Society, Fine Arts Union, and Independent Painters and Sculptors Association. Getting the idea from this, Nurullah Berk recommended that they call themselves after the fourth letter of the alphabet, "D".
Artist Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and his wife Eren Eyüboğlu participated D Grubu art exhibitions starting in 1936.
From an artistic perspective, their aims were to reject Impressionism, and inspired by Cubist and Constructivist to establish a strong basis for patterns.