Nikolaos Gyzis

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NIKOLAOS GYZIS

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NIKOLAOS GYZIS

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Gyzis was born in the island of Tinos ,which has a long artistic

history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon

embarked on a study at the Athens school of fine arts. His

studies there, formed the foundation of his artistic education

and helped him to develop his natural skill in painting.

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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 Germanpictorial climate,

and became one of its most characteristic representatives of the Greek

artistic movement of the Munich school . This is expressed in the

painting News of Victory in 1871, which deals with the Franco-Prussian

war, and the painting Apotheosis of Bavaria

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At the beginning of the 1870s Nikolaos returned to Greece for a period of several

years, after which he produced a sequence paintings with more avowedly Greek

themes, such as the Carnival in Athens and the Arravoniasmata and a little later

the painting After the destruction of Psara. 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. His works are today exhibited at museums and

private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.

Arravoniasmata

The Carnival in Athens

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HIS WORKCapuchin

monk

Ηistoria (1892)

Learning by Heart

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Old man wearing a red fez

•The Barber (1880)

The orphans

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ATHINA GIANNAKAKOY

ZWH GAVRIDOY

STELLA KOLYBAKI

MARGARITA KATRANI