The Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation (formerly known in English as Teloglion Foundation of Art; ) is an art museum located in

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History

It was established in 1972 and it was named after Nestor and Aliki Telloglou, who donated their art collection and their entire property to the

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. Following the donation, the university established the foundation in order to house the art collection and make it available to the public. Since December 1999, the foundation has been installed in a modern building at the upper part of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Information

Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation is a

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supervised by the

and directed by a

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, composed of university's professors from various faculties.Foundation's primary mission is to familiarize the public with

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and

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and to support research and studies about arts. Furthermore, the foundation organizes

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s and

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s, supporting in this way the cooperation with other similar

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s in Greece and abroad. Its collection comes from

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s of Telloglou and various individuals. It contains numerous artworks mainly of Greek but also and European artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Facilities

Teloglion is housed in a 6,500 square meter building located at the northern side of the

campus. The site where the building is situated was granded by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. The exhibition area covers three floors and a total area of 2,500 square meters. It is subdivided into smaller independent areas and a small number of auxiliary rooms. The levels of

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, relative

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and

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inside the exhibition area are closely and constantly monitored through the use of a state-of-the-art system, which controls the environmental conditions in the whole building. The foundation also owns a medium-sized amphitheater, which is a fully equipped conventional center, able to host a great variety of cultural and scientific events, such as musical events, seminars, lectures and conferences. The

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holds 230 seats and is equipped with advanced megaphone installations, a control room and three independent translation booths.

Art collection

Nestor's and Aliki's Telloglou donation is the core of the

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's art collection which numbers about 7,000–8,000 exhibits. The main body of the collection includes works of art by important

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and

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an artists of the 19th and 20th century (

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s, prints, oil on canvas,

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s and so on). It also includes artworks from various

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and Roman

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s, especially from the Hellenistic period, samples of Chinese and

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art ( dishes,

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s, etc.),

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n miniatures and a variety of woodreliefs from

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. Later the collection was enriched with various

s from artists and art lovers such as Tonis and Ioanna Spiteris, Demetrios Tsamis and many more. Thus today the collection of the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation possesses artworks from the most important Greek artists of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, such as works from Gyzis, Jakobides, Parthenis, Spyropoulos, Engonopoulos, Mytaras and many others. Notable artists (painters, engravers, sculptors) include the following:

Heptanese School

Nikolaos Kantounis Nikolaos Kantounis or Kandounis (; 1767–1834) was a Greeks, Greek priest, painter and teacher who did not follow the traditional Italo-Byzantine, Maniera Greca. His teacher was the famous painter Nikolaos Koutouzis. He began to incorporate the ...

* Nikolaos Koutouzis * Spyridon Prosalentis * Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos

Munich School

* Ioannis Altamouras * Thalia Flora-Karavia *

Nikolaos Gyzis Nikolaos Gyzis ( ; ; 1 March 1842 – 4 January 1901) is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work ''Eros and the Painter'', his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams ...

* Georgios Jakobides * Georgios Roilos

Early 20th century & Generation of the '30s

* George Bouzianis * Nicos Engonopoulos * Giorgos Gounaropoulos *

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (; February 26, 1906 – September 3, 1994), also known as Nikos Ghika, was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, ...

* Photis Kontoglou * Konstantinos Parthenis * Yannis Tsarouchis * Mimis Vitsoris * Emmanuel Zairis

Modern & Contemporary

* Koula Bekiari * Costas Koulentianos * Dimitris Mytaras * Giorgos Sikeliotis * Yiannis Spyropoulos * Tassos * Panayiotis Tetsis * Loukas Venetoulias

European artists

* Ivan Aivazovsky *

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

* Marino Marini * Henri Félix Philippoteaux * Salvator Rosa

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References

External links

Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation official website
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070917222721/http://www.auth.gr/univ/units/teloglion/index_en.html Information about the foundation in the site of the Aristotle University of Thessalonikibr>Museums of Macedonia web site
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