Georgios Roilos
Georgios Roilos (
Art studies
Born in
Career
In 1894 he returned to Athens and one year later, in 1895, he was appointed to the Chair of sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.[3] In 1903 he went to London and became a member of the London Artist Association, and later to Liverpool, where he was elected a member of the city's Academy of Arts. In the period between 1910 and 1927 he was the incumbent of the Chair of Oil Painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. He was among the first to introduce impressionism into Greek painting, thus subverting the academic style of the "Munich School". He was a teacher and early mentor of, among others, Giorgio de Chirico, who, in his memoirs, commends the outstanding quality of Roilos's painting, which he deems superior to that of Giovanni Fattori. He died in Athens on 28 August 1928.
Family
Descendant of Georgios Roilos is Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard.
Notes
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- ^ Grove Art Online
- ^ a b "Roilos Georgios N. (1867-1928)". Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum. Archived from the original on 2015-03-15.
References
- Giorgio de Chirico, Memorie della mia vita, Milan 1962.
- Chrysanthos Chrestou, He Hellenike Zographike 1832–1922, Athens 1982.
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