Georgios Jakobides
Georgios Jakobides | |
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Born | |
Died | 13 December 1932 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Greek |
Known for | Painting and sculpture |
Notable work |
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Movement | Naturalism |
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 National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
Life[]
He was born in Chidira, Lesbos, Ottoman Empire. At the age of 13, he traveled to Smyrna to live with his uncle and study at the Evangelical School. From 1870 to 1876, Jakobides studied sculpture and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and in 1877 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on a scholarship to continue his painting studies under Karl Theodor von Piloty.
In Munich, he lived for 17 years where he worked in his studio, painting mythological scenes, genre pictures, and portraits. His work is influenced by German academic Realism. His most famous paintings were of children but it said that after his wife's death in 1889, he stopped painting happy themes. In the capital of Bavaria he was regarded as a successful German artist selling many of his works at high prices. The Greek government invited him in 1900 to return to Athens to organize the National Gallery of Athens, and in 1904 he was appointed Director of the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he taught for 25 years. At this time, additional to his themes he produced formal portraits of eminent Greeks (e.g., Queen Sophia). He opposed all new artistic tendencies, including Impressionism and Expressionism, but supported younger artists to follow their own individual artistic tendencies.
He was awarded at five international exhibits: among those in Berlin 1891 and in Paris 1900.
His works are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.
His opus consists of some two hundred oil paintings, several of which are on display in Europe and overseas. His son, the actor Michalis Iakovides, donated his personal journal – which includes a list of his paintings between 1878 and 1919 – to the National Gallery of Greece in 1951.
He died in Athens in 1932.
Gallery[]
Children's Concert
Grandma's Favorite
Portrait of King George I
Portrait of Queen Sofia of Greece
The First Steps (1893)
The Girl
Bavarian village
The Favorite
Girl Reading
The Naughty Grandson
Cold Shower
See also[]
- Munich School
- Art in modern Greece
References[]
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External links[]
- Jakobides Digital Museum
- National Gallery of Athens Official website
- Andreas S. Ioannou, 19th Century Greek Art.
- 1853 births
- 1932 deaths
- Members of the Academy of Athens (modern)
- Greek curators
- People from Lesbos
- Greeks of the Ottoman Empire
- Greek male painters
- 19th-century Greek painters
- 20th-century Greek painters
- Munich School
- Athens School of Fine Arts faculty
- 19th-century male artists
- 20th-century male artists
- Greek portrait painters