Yiannis Spyropoulos ( el, Γιάννης Σπυρόπουλος) (March 12, 1912 – May 18, 1990) was a famous Greek painter of the second half of the 20th century.
Life and work
Spyropoulos was born in
Pylos
Pylos (, ; el, Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is th ...
of
Messenia. In 1933 he was accepted at the
Athens School of Fine Arts.
His teachers included
Spyridon Vikatos, Oumbertos Argyros and
Epameinondas Thomopoulos
Epameinondas Thomopoulos (Greek: Επαμεινώνδας Θωμόπουλος, 1878 - January 4, 1976) was a Greek artist who attended the academy and the first Greek impressionist.
He studied drawing in Italy. It was his years as professor o ...
.
Eight years later the
Academy of Athens rewards Spyropoulos with the first prize and the opportunity to study in the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...
in Paris. During his studies he was taught by
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin (1875 in Sens – 1939) was a French post-impressionist painter.
Guérin studied with Gustave Moreau in the l'École des Beaux Arts à Paris, and had one exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in 1910; in a review ...
.
See also
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Art in modern Greece
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Contemporary Greek art
Contemporary Greek Art is defined as the art produced by Greek artists after World War II.
Painting-Sculpture
Abstract Expressionism
Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997) was an acclaimed abstract expressionist artist from Lefkas, who lived and w ...
References
External links
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Spyropoulos FoundationMunicipal Art Gallery Of ChaniaPainter's folder in the Teloglion Foundation of Art
1912 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Greek painters
Herder Prize recipients
People from Messenia
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