Youssef Asar
Born in Egypt, graduated from Cairo University, studied art in Germany. He returned to Egypt for 4 years assembling murals of Egyptian Gods in government buildings and at Cairo airport. In 1967 he immigrated to Australia where he lived for 26 years and taught painting. He worked at Sydney University and in 1973 moved to Darwin, Australia where he establishe a Fine Arts College at the University of the Northern Territory, Australia. In 1994 he returned to Egypt to observe and create anew. His successful exhibition in March 1998 was "Returning to the Roots" in the AlAhram Building in Cairo, Egypt. (UNKOWN SOURCE)
Asar, an Egyptian painter and art historian, arrived in Ames in the fall of 1998 at the invitation of David Topel, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Iowa State University was beginning a year long celebration of Carver, the African-American teacher and scientist (and artist) who is one of ISU’s most famous agricultural alums and faculty members.
He painted a Carver triptych in the Food Sciences Building, as well as many watercolors of the Iowa landscape that have been shown on campus and at field days on ISU research farms around the state. He’s painted portraits, including one of Lauren Christian, the late ISU professor. His murals were prominently featured at the dedication this year of a USDA building named for Carver in Beltsville, Maryland.
SOURCE - https://www.cals.iastate.edu/news/2015/cals-scrapbook-youssef-asar (Aug, 2025)
