THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

He was born in 1904 in the Fethiye district of Antalya as the children of Abdullah Fehmi Karamanlı Zade Effendi
and Zeliha Mollaoğlu Lady. Mahmut Cuda lost his mother when he was only three years old. He enrolled in Skopje
Neighborhood School for primary school education in 1910. The family returned to Istanbul in 1912 due to his
father's illness. Then Cuda enrolled in the Fatih Numune School. And his father, who was sick, passed away two
years after they came to Istanbul. Born as the last child of a crowded family, Cuda's family will disintegrate upon
the frequent relocation of his father, who was a judge in the last years of the Ottoman Empire that is full of war and
destruction, and the death of his mother and father. He is then given to Darülşafaka, a school for orphans.