George Bouzianis ( el, Γιώργος Μπουζιάνης; german: Jorgos Busianis; November 8, 1885 – October 23, 1959) was a major

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painter.

Biography

He studied painting at the

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with teachers such as

Nikiphoros 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 c ...

and

Konstantinos Volanakis Konstantinos Volanakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βολανάκης; 1837 - 29 June 1907) was a Greek painter who became known as the "father of Greek seascape painting". Biography Volanakis was born at Heraklion on Crete, to parents wh ...

, Georgios Roilos and Dimitrios Geraniotis. In 1907 he moved to

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to continue his art studies with Otto Seitz. In 1910 he moved to

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, where he was taught from

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. In 1917 he has already adopted elements of

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movement in his own individual artistic style. He became very soon a respected artist in Germany and very soon he had his first contract with the Barhfeld gallery. In 1927 in

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there was a large exhibition of his work. Between 1929 and 1932 he travelled and lived in Paris with the financial support of the Barhfeld gallery. Due to the financial crisis across Europe he had to return to

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near Munich, where he had built a house. Unfortunately,

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was gradually fading away in Germany with the rise of

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in Germany's politics. In 1934 he returned to

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. To his own disappointment he failed to take a position at the School of Fine Arts of Athens. Initially, Bouzianis was treated with hostility from the Athenian artistic circles who started to appreciate his oeuvre after his exhibition at

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gallery in 1949. In 1950 he represented Greece at the

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and in 1952 he was awarded with the first award of the Guggenheim competition for Greece. His house after his death in

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has been converted to a museum. His paintings are today exhibited at the

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and in many other museums in Greece and abroad.

References

External links

Works in the private collection of Yiannis Skepetzakis

National Gallery of Greece

* ttp://www.myheimat.de/eichenau/beitrag/66318/kuenstler-jorgos-busianis-in-eichenau/ Article on Georgios Bouzianis in Eichenau near Munich
Article on Georgios Bouzianis, auction of a paiinting in 2008

Collection of artworks chronologically in order
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouzianis, George Greek artists 1959 deaths 1885 births 20th-century Greek painters Artists from Athens

Biography

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