The Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum is an
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...
in
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
,
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
. It is sited in
Marousi
Marousi or Maroussi (), also known as Amarousio (), is a city and a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens#Athens Urban Area, Athens urban area, Greece. Marousi dates back to the era of the History of Athens, ancient Athenian Republic; its ...
near the
Athens Metro
The Athens Metro () is a rapid transit system serving the Athens urban area in Greece. Line 1 opened as a single-track conventional steam railway in 1869 and was electrified in 1904. Beginning in 1991, Elliniko Metro S.A. constructed and ext ...
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.
__TOC__
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 m
2 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 (Greek: Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης; 11 January 1853 – 13 December 1932) was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the ...
*
Nikiphoros Lytras
Nikiforos Lytras (; 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 completing these studies, he became a ...
*
Konstantinos Parthenis
Konstantinos Parthenis (Greek language, Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Παρθένης; 10 May 1878 – 25 July 1967) was a Greece, Greek Painting, painter. Born in Alexandria, part of the Egyptian Greeks, Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis b ...
*
Yiannis Moralis
Yiannis Moralis (; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s". He is a person who carried weight in many ...
*
Yiannis Gaitis
*
Takis Takis may refer to:
* Takis (snack), a spicy, roll-shaped snack
* Takis Christoforidis, a Greek actor
* Takis Fotopoulos, a Greek political philosopher
* Takis Ikonomopoulos, a Greek football player
* Takis Kanellopoulos a Greek film director
* Tak ...
*
Vaso Katraki
Vaso Katraki (, 5 July 1914 – 27 December 1988) was a Greek painter and engraver.
She was known for her passionate depictions of the sufferings of the Greek people during and after World War II.
In 1967 she was exiled to a barren island by the ...
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 Greek state and the 20th century.
As Mainland Greece was under Ottoman rule for all four centuries, it was not a part of the Renaissance and artistic movements th ...
*
Greek art
References
Works of Emfietzoglou collection (only Greek)Greek article-photo of the MuseumArticle about the collection (only Greek)
{{authority control
Museums in Athens
Greek art
Art museums and galleries established in 1999
Art museums and galleries in Greece
1999 establishments in Greece