lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, re-organizing the department of sculpture and mediating introductions towards modern art, basing his work on traditional studies. In 1939, he managed to fly out his son illegally from Berlin to Turkey. In 1942, he married his second wife Yolanda Carolina Manzini, who was from an Italian-German family, and in 1943, his daughter Elisabeth was born. From 1943 to 1944 he made a statue of İsmet İnönü realised in bronze, even though even the plinth was ready, due to the change of government in 1950 the statue was not erected. It was finally erected in 1982 in the Maçka Park. This statue is particularly notable as the first statue made of İnönü and it was (at least as of 1993) the 2nd largest İnönü statue in existence after the statue that was erected in the mid 1980s in the garden of İnönü's house in Ankara. From 1951 to 1966, he was a lecturer at the Istanbul Technical University, at the department of architecture. He was a member of the selection committee that judged submissions for relief designs being made for the Anıtkabir which went on from 1951 to 1953. 1955, he got the Federal Cross of Merit. He was called back to the academy in West Berlin only in 1956, the same year the works which stayed in New York could be received back with the help of the Foreign Office. At the age of eighty, he decided to return to West Germany again, where he lived in Krailling, near Munich. He died in Munich in June 1972, being highly decorated by the German government with the Federal Cross of Merit with Star. The archive is meanwhile managed by his daughter Elisabeth Weber-Belling. References Sources Further reading Belling, Rudolf. In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Band 1: A–D. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 162 Winfried Nerdinger: Rudolf Belling und die Kunstströmungen in Berlin 1918–1923. Berlin 1981 (with list of works) Jan Pierre van Rijen, in Christian Tümpel: Deutsche Bildhauer 1900–1945. Entartet? Zwolle 1992, p. 203 Arnold Reisman: Turkey's Modernization. Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk’s Vision. New Academia, Washington DC 2006, (predecessor text from 2004 as Abstract im Art. Exil in der Türkei 1933–1945) Dieter Scholz (ed.), Christina Thomson: Rudolf Belling. Skulpturen und Architekturen. Hirmer, München 2017. External links Literature by and about Rudolf Belling in