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The Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum is an art gallery in
Works of Emfietzoglou collection (only Greek)Greek article-photo of the MuseumArticle about the collection (only Greek)
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Athens
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, Greece
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. It is sited in Marousi near the Athens Metro
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station. Its founder Prodromos Emfietzoglou gave his private art collection of over 500 works to the public.
These days the Emphietsoglou gallery offers a review of 750 works of modern Greek art including some of the best paintings from the last 200 years.
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History
Since 19th century Prodromos Emfietzoglou and his family due to their interest in Greek art were collecting works of various Greek painters. Their passion in combination with many artists' donations led in 1999 to the foundation of the museum. Today the collection is composed of paintings, sculpture, photography, engravings and video installations.The Gallery
The museum is cited in Maroussi in 3.000 m2 area next to the collector's residence. Today there are about 750 works of 260 Greek artists. The works are distributed in the museum's building, in the surrounding open area and some are exposed in the collector's residence but in spite of this spatial division visitors are allowed to visit all the works. The last years several educational happenings are arranged. It is calculated that about 20.000 students took part in these happenings.
Collection
The collection of the Gallery includes major artworks by notable Greek artists such as: * Nicholaos Gysis *Georgios Jakobides
Georgios Jakobides (Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης; 11 January 1853 – 13 December 1932) was a painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the Nati ...
* Nikiphoros Lytras
* Konstantinos Parthenis
* Yiannis Moralis
* Yiannis Gaitis
* Takis
* Vaso Katraki
Visitor information
*Location: Foinikon Str., Anavryta, Maroussi, Athens 151 26, Greece, Athens, Greece *Tel.: 0030-210-8097100 *Opening hours: Sun 10 am - 6 pm - Educational programms:Teu-Wed 9.45 am, 11.30 am.See also
*Art in Modern Greece
Modern Greek art is art from the period between the emergence of the new independent Greece, Greek state and the 20th century.
As Mainland Greece was under Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule for all four centuries, it was not a part of the Renaissance an ...
*Greek art
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period). It absorbed influences of E ...
References
Works of Emfietzoglou collection (only Greek)
{{authority control Museums in Athens Greek art Art museums established in 1999 Art museums and galleries in Greece 1999 establishments in Greece