As one of the painters of “1914 Generation”, Nazmi Ziya Güran (1881-1937) was a part, observer, witness and painter of Istanbul, all the time during its occupation or during the following years of the new Turkish Republic was the most intensive at his parental home in Horhor district in Aksaray, in Çamlıca, Süleymaniye or in his large windowed studio, in Bosphorus, Golden Horn, Üsküdar, on seaside, city hills, the streets and countryside.