NIKOLAOS GYZIS
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.
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
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
HIS WORKCapuchin
monk
Ηistoria (1892)
Learning by Heart
Old man wearing a red fez
•The Barber (1880)
The orphans
THE END
ATHINA GIANNAKAKOY
ZWH GAVRIDOY
STELLA KOLYBAKI
MARGARITA KATRANI