Nikiforos Lytras
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Spouse | Irene Kyriakidi |
Nikiforos Lytras (
Biography
Nikiforos Lytras was the son of a popular marble sculptor. In 1850, at the age of eighteen years he went to Athens to study in the School of Arts. He studied painting with Ludwig Thiersch and Raffaelo Ceccoli (c.1800-after 1860). After graduating in 1856, he began teaching an elementary course in writing.
In 1860 with a Greek government's scholarship he went to Munich to study in the
Following his return to Athens, Lytras became professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the department of Painting and he taught until the time of his death, some 38 years.[2] Spyridon Vikatos was one of his pupils.[3]
For four years, starting in 1873, he travelled to
In 1879 he married Irene Kyriakidi daughter of a tradesman from Smyrna and they had six children. His son
Nikiforos Lytras died at the age of 72 in 1904, after a short illness that is believed to have been caused by his colours' chemical substances. After his death Georgios Jakobides took his place at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Art
Lytras oeuvre falls into distinct periods. During the time that Lytras was Piloty's student he focused in
Lytras was one of the most famous painters in Athens. He participated and honored in many exhibitions: at the Zappeion exhibitions, as well as in exhibitions in Paris (1855, 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900) and in Vienna (1873). Also as he was the official portraitist in Athens and he painted many members of the upper class of his time.
His contribution in art was conceived also through his courses in the Athens School of Fine Arts. Although devoted to the school of
In 1903 he was decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of the Redeemer. In 1909 – after his death – some of his paintings were presented in Piloty's School (1885–1886) in Munich. In 1933 in Athens School of Fine Arts an exhibition with Lytras' 186 paintings were presented.
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Antigone in front of dead Polynikes (1865), National Gallery of Athens.
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Sailor smoking
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Execution ofPatriarch Gregory V of Constantinople
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Carols
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The blowing up of Nasuh Ali Pasha's flagship by Kanaris
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The Waiting
References
- ^ Kaftanztoglou, Lyssandros, Logos ekfonithis kata tin Epeteion Teletin tou Vassilikou Polytechniou, [Pamphlet], 4 May 1858 (Speech delivered at the Anniversary of the Royal Polytechnic School, 4 May 1858), [no publication date]; Lydakis, S., Istoria tis Neoellinikis Zographikis. [History of Modern Greek Painting], Athens, Melissa, 1976, p. 173
- ^ Ragias, Georgios, (ed.0, Apo ton 19on ston 20on Aiona, [From the 19th to the 20th C]. Athens, Melissa, 1975, p. 100; Lydakis, Stelios, Istoria tis Neoellinikis Zographikis, [History of Modern Greek Painting], Athens, Melissa, 1976, p. 94
- ^ Vikatos Spyridon – Nikias.
- ^ Lydakis, Stelios., Istoria tis Neoellinikis Zographikis, [History of Modern Greek Painting], Athens, Melissa, 1976, p. 141
- ^ Sochos, Xenofon, Leukoma Ellinon Kallitechnon-Nikiforos Lytras, [Album of Greek Artists-Nikiforos Lytras], Athens, Typographion Paraskevas, 1929, p. 40
Further reading
- The Greek Painters from the 19th Century to the 20th Century, Volume One, Melissa, 1974
External links
- "Vikatos Spyridon", Nikias, retrieved 17 February 2016
- Official Tinos site (in Greek)
- peri-grafis (in Greek)
- Artfact