Visual artist and sculptor Mahmoud Moussa - The great Alexandrian artist Mahmoud Moussa was born on May 17, 1913, in the Bab Sharq neighborhood near the Kom El-Dikka neighborhood in Alexandria, where the people’s artist, musician Sayed Darwish, was born and raised. Musa finished his preparatory studies to enter Al-Azhar to become an important sheikh, but he announced to his family his desire to practice his father’s profession, which is creating plaster decorations for the facades and interiors of buildings. Thus, Mahmoud Moussa joined the studio of the Fine Arts Amateurs Association to study art. He began studying art in an evening school teaching art from 1929 to 1931. - He joined the free evening studies of the Arts Amateurs Association, which was headed by the artist Mahmoud Saeed (the Arts Amateurs Association founded by Hassan Kamel). - He worked in the Al-Huda Ceramic Factory, which was established by Hoda Shaarawy in 1933. - He taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in the direct stone sculpture course in the Sculpture Department after its opening in 1957 - He received a sabbatical grant from the Ministry of Culture from 1963 to 1975 - He began his participation in art exhibitions in 1929 with a joint exhibition held at the Count Zogheib Palace in Cairo (the headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art Later, he turned to pure artistic production in 1940 and had his own studio in an atelier in Alexandria. He taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in the course “Direct Stone Sculpture” in the Sculpture Department after its opening in 1957.

Among his most important works - among the most famous sculptural works of Mahmoud Moussa: the statue “The Farmer’s Head”, which is featureless, executed in black granite stone, and the statue “Eyes That See Wonder”, one of the most important and beloved statues of Moussa himself, and the statue “The Face of an Artist’s Daughter as a Child”, And the statue of “The Winding Sheet”. The artist contracted with many diverse Egyptian churches to execute religious works in relief, including this sculpture for which he received five hundred Egyptian pounds. He executed a relief sculpture in the Jesuit Church in Sidi Gaber in 1957, and another sculpture in the Maronite Church of Roshdy in 1967 and other churches. He erected a memorial to the Greek martyrs of aviation, commissioned by the Greek Ministry of War in 1943. - A relief sculpture in marble at the National Bank in Cairo 1955 - A relief sculpture at the entrance to Akhbar Al-Youm House 1957 - A relief sculpture in the Jesuit Church in Alexandria 1957 - A relief sculpture in the Marine Passenger Terminal in Alexandria 1961 - A relief sculpture in the Cairo Sheraton Hotel 1967 - A relief sculpture in the Maronite Church in 1967 - A stone statue Portarosa Yugoslavia 1980 - One of the founders of the Alexandria Atelier, where he was the only Egyptian artist in the atelier’s studio in 1940 - Participating in art exhibitions in 1928 by participating in a public exhibition in which Mohamed Nagy, Mahmoud Mukhtar, Mahmoud Saeed and others participated. - The National Fine Arts Exhibition, 25th session of 1997, and many previous sessions. - Most public exhibitions in Cairo and Alexandria. He held a comprehensive exhibition of his works at the Soviet Cultural Center in Alexandria in 1973 with the artist Abdel Salam Eid. He held an exhibition of his works at the Soviet Cultural Center in Alexandria in 1974 with the artist Ismat Dawstashi. - Three Generations Exhibition at the Freedom Culture Palace in 1978 with the artist Ahmed Abdel Wahab and the artist Ismat Dawstashi. - A comprehensive exhibition of his works at the Egyptian Academy in Rome in 1987. He organized many honorary exhibitions for his works, the most recent of which was the 2001 Alexandria Biennale. - Exhibition (A Touch of Genius) at Khan Al-Maghrabi Hall 2003. - Alexandria Biennale, sessions 2, 3, 4, 5, 9-10, 21. - Exhibition of Egyptian Art Abroad. - Symposium of open-air sculpture in Yugoslavia in 1980, where two statues were executed in the open garden and from its collections. - The Egyptian Academy in Rome, where he executed a large statue of a bird made of white marble in 1987.