Periclès Pantazis - L' Enfant au cerceau

Périclès Pantazis ( el, Περικλής Πανταζής, ''Periklis Pantazis''; 13 March 1849,

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25 January 1884,

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) was a major

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painter of the 19th century who gained a great reputation as an artist initially in

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Life

Pantazis studied painting at the

Athens School of Fine Arts The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA; el, Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών, ΑΣΚΤ, literally: Highest School of Fine Arts), is Greece's premier Art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students. ...

from 1864 to 1871 under

Nikiforos Lytras Nikiforos Lytras ( el, Νικηφόρος Λύτρας; 1832 – 13 June 1904) was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After co ...

. He continued his studies in

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for one year and then left for

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and

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. In Paris he was taught by

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

and

Antoine Chintreuil Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape art, landscape painter. He was among the starving artists who lived ''la vie de bohéme'' in Paris in the 1840s, as popularized by his friend and fellow Bohemianism, Bohem ...

. At this period he was introduced to the works of

Eugène Boudin Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 18248 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summa ...

Johan Barthold Jongkind Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism. Biography Jongkind was born in the town of Lattro ...

and the

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Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

and

Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints and drawings. Degas is espec ...

. In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he moved to

. A notable

wine businessman, Jean Économou, was particularly interested in his skills and commissioned a large number of Pantazis paintings. In Belgium, Pantazis became a member of an anti-academic artistic group called ''Circle de la pâte'' (meaning the circle of colour), and a member of

Les XX ''Les XX'' ( French; "''Les Vingt''"; ; ) was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years, they held an annual exhibition of their art ...

. He became close friends with painter Guillaume Vogels and sculptor, Auguste Philippette, whose sister he married a few years later. In Brussels, initially he worked as a home decorator for Vogels, but later he was dedicated to painting as he became increasingly known for his talent. In 1878 he represented Greece at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. He died of chronic

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Μισιρλή, Νέλλη (1993). Ελληνική Ζωγραφική (18ος - 19ος αιώνας). Athens: Adam Editions, p.210-211. at the age of 34.

Museums

*Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten *Brussels,

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*Oostende, KaZ *Sint-Niklaas,

Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

References

Sources

*Georgia Dracopoulou, ''Pericles Pantazis and the Belgian Painting of the 19th Century'', Athens, 1982, p. 115, illustrated *Serge Goyens de Heusch, Olga Metzafou-Polyzou & Stephanos Samaras
''Pericles Pantazis''
Athens, 1994, pp. 52 & 212, no. 184,

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