Nikolaos Gyzis

Nicholaos Gysis (Greek: Νικόλαος Γύζης, (pronounced [jíʑiɕ]; 1 March 1842 - 4 January 1901) is considered one of Greece's most important nineteenth century painters and is most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting which was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He is the major representative of the Greek 19th century art movement of the Munich School. is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Bonhams is a privately-owned British auction house founded in 1793. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Gyzis was born in the island of Tinos which has a long artistic history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon embarked on a study at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Tinos (Greek: Τήνος; Italian: Tine) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. ... The Athens School of Fine Arts (Ανώτατη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών), is Greeces premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students. ...

In 1865, having won a scholarship, he went to continue his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he settled for the rest of his life. He was very soon incorporated into the German pictorial climate, and became one of its most characteristic representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. This is expressed in the painting News of Victory of 1871, which deals with the Franco-Prussian War, and the painting Apotheosis i Thriamvos tis Vavarias (Apotheosis or Triumph of Bavaria). Akademie der Bildenden Künste München New Building Panoramic view of the Academy The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) was founded 1808 by Maximilian I of Bavaria in Munich as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts... Combatants Second French Empire North German Confederation allied with South German states (later German Empire) Commanders Napoleon III François Achille Bazaine Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta Otto von Bismarck Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Strength 400,000 at wars beginning 1,200,000 Casualties 150,000...

From 1886 onward he was professor at the Academy of Munich, and gradually turned from the detailed realistic depictions towards compositions of a singularly impressionistic character. At the beginning of the 1870s returned to Greece for a period of several years, after which he produced a sequence paintings with more avowedly Greek themes, such as the Carnival at Athens and the Arravoniasmata Engagement Ceremony and a little later the painting After the destruction of Psara. Towards the end of his life, in the 1890s, he took a turn toward more religious themes, with his best known work of the later period being Triumph of Religion^[1]. His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere. Psara (Greek: Ψαρά) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. ...

Gysis' painting The Secret School was depicted on the reverse of the Greek 200 drachmas banknote of 1996-2001.^[2] The term obverse, and its opposite, reverse, describe the two sides of units of currency and many other kinds of two-sided objects, most often in reference to coins, but also to medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art. ... ISO 4217 Code GRD User(s) Greece Inflation 3. ...

Gallery

See also

• Munich School
• National Gallery of Athens
• Art in modern Greece
• Greek Art
• Emfietzoglou Gallery

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References

External links

• Gysis's "Der Grieche", Galerie Metropol
• Nikolaos Gyzis's The Secret School and an Ongoing National Discourse by Antonis Danos
• National Gallery of Greece