- Nicholaos Gysis
Nicholaos Gysis (Greek,
1 March 1842 -1901) is considered one ofGreece 's most important nineteenth century painters and is most famous for his work "Eros and the Painter ": his first genre painting, recently auctioned atBonhams inLondon and last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He is the major representative of the Greek 19th century art movement of theMunich School .He was born in the island of
Tinos which has a long artistic history. He then came to Athens to study at theAthens School of Fine Arts .In 1865, having won a scholarship, he went to continue his studies at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich , where he settled for the rest of his life. He was very soon incorporated into the German pictorial climate, and became one of its most characteristic representatives of the Greek artistic movement of theMunich School . This is expressed in the painting "News of Victory of 1871 ", which deals with theFranco-Prussian War , and the painting "Apotheosis i Thriamvos tis Vavarias " (Apotheosis or Triumph of Bavaria).From 1886 onward he was professor at the
Academy of Munich , and gradually turned from the detailed realistic depictions towards compositions of a singularly impressionistic character. At the beginning of the 1870s returned toGreece for a period of several years, after which he produced a sequence paintings with more avowedly Greek themes, such as the Carnival at Athens and the ArravoniasmataEngagement Ceremony and a little later the painting After the destruction ofPsara . Towards the end of his life, in the 1890s, he took a turn toward more religious themes, with his best known work of the later period being Triumph of Religion [ [http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_02/articles/dano_print.html NCAW Autumn 02 | Antonis Danos on Nikolaos Gyzis's The Secret School ] ] . His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.Gallery
See also
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Munich School
*National Gallery of Athens
*Art in modern Greece
*Greek Art External links
* [http://www.galerie-metropol.com/galerie.php?show
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* [http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_02/articles/dano_print.html Nikolaos Gyzis's The Secret School and an Ongoing National Discourseby Antonis Danos]
* [http://www.nationalgallery.gr National Gallery of Greece]References
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