(died in 2014) – Turkey – Germany
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Born in Turkey in 1949, she was a visual artist who lived in Germany from 1981. In Turkey, after finishing secondary school in 1969, she attended the Istanbul Teachers’ College and graduated in 1972 with a diploma in art. She then worked as an art teacher for nine years. In 1983 she began further studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, graduating as a master student in 1989.
Alongside her highly regarded work as a painter and draftswoman, Gönül Sen-Menzel wrote and illustrated the bilingual (Turkish/German) Vita children’s book series for the educational publisher Anadolu, in which the vitamin Vita travels through the human body.
From 2009 she pursued a doctorate while lecturing at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in Paderborn.
Gönül Sen-Menzel lived and worked in Cologne and took part in countless exhibitions and art projects.
The portrait was on the website of the association TABU e.V. (“We protect little desert flowers! – Against genital mutilation, for women’s and children’s rights”), which introduced Gönül Sen-Menzel as a supporter; status March 2014, with a later addition about her death.
