Gifted 7-year-old dubbed the ‘preschool Picasso’ shakes up the art world
- Born in 2012, German artistic prodigy Mikail Akar has spent half his life in the limelight
- Boy’s paintings sell for thousands of dollars to buyers from across the world
With his striped jumper, goofy grin and dreams of becoming a professional footballer, Mikail Akar seems just like any other seven-year-old boy.
Yet the Cologne-born youngster is actually an expressionist whizz kid who has taken the international art scene by storm.
Dubbed the “preschool Picasso” by German media, Akar’s paintings now sell for thousands of euros (dollars) to buyers from across the world.
“At just seven years old, he is established in the art world. There is interest from Germany, France and the USA,” his father and manager, Kerem Akar, said.
Akar senior discovered Mikail’s precocious talent by chance several years ago, when he gifted his son a canvas and some handprint paints for his fourth birthday.
“We had already bought him enough cars and action figures, so we had the idea of getting him a canvas,” Kerem Akar said.