Georgios Jakobides

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Georgios Jakobides (1888)

Georgios Iakovidis ( Greek Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης , born January 11, 1853 in Chidira on Lesbos ; † December 13, 1932 in Athens ), also Georgios Jakobides or Georg Jakobides (signed in Germany with G. Jakobides ), was an important Greek painter and representative of the Munich School .

Jakobides in his studio photographed by Carl Teufel , 1883

Life

At the age of thirteen, his parents sent him to Smyrna to see his uncle, a practicing architect, to attend the evangelical school . He worked alongside his school attendance. His interest in art and in particular in wood carving showed up early on. With the prospect of financial support from the timber merchant Michail Hatziloukas, an employee of his uncle, he decided in 1870 to go to Athens to study sculpture .

In the same year he enrolled at the Athens School of Art . His teachers there were the painter Nikiforos Lytras and the sculptor Leonidas Drosis . He completed his studies in March 1877 with the highest grade.

In November 1877 he received a grant from the Greek state to deepen his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . His teachers there were Ludwig von Löfftz , Wilhelm von Lindenschmidt and Gabriel von Max . In the summer months he traveled to Bavaria and painted the villages and life in the country. This work is of great documentary importance today.

Jakobides was represented with three works at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 . In the same year he and Toby Edward Rosenthal founded a painting school primarily for women, which he ran until 1898. Alexander Wolf (1864–1921) from Switzerland was one of his students. At that time women were not allowed to study at the academy. In 1883 Jakobides finished his studies at the Munich Art Academy. He was considered a talented academic painter and was highly regarded in Munich society. In 1889 his wife Aglaia died; together they had a daughter and a son. After the death of his wife he stopped depicting cheerful naturalistic images of children in his works, for which he was known until then.

The government of the Kingdom of Greece asked him to take over the development of a state art collection and in 1900 appointed him director. This collection now forms the basis of the National Gallery of Athens , while the formal successor institution is the Athens City Gallery . In Athens, too, he gained a good reputation as an outstanding academic painter. His customers included the royal family as well as numerous entrepreneurs. Jakobides was friends with Nicholas of Greece , who worked as a painter in his free time. Jakobides was a good pool player and spent lunchtime playing.

Jakobides taught at the National Technical University in the painting department. When it was spun off as the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1910 , he was appointed rector. In 1917 a secessionist group around Nikolaos Lytras was founded at the university . Jakobides rejected their style of painting, but tolerated them. One of Jakobides' students was Giorgio De Chirico . In 1926 he became a member of the Athens Academy of Sciences . In 1930 he gave up the management of the art college, but remained its honorary director. Jakobides died in 1932 shortly before his 80th birthday.

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Bavarian village
Children's concert (first version)
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First steps (first version)

Jakobides was a representative of the academic naturalism of the so-called Munich School . He is assigned to the circle around Karl von Piloty ; In view of the fact that he painted more diverse and differentiated in terms of color, one speaks of impulses from the circle around Wilhelm von Diez .

During his time in Germany he devoted himself to genre painting of rural life in Bavaria and its pre-industrial structures. He especially painted children, rooms and still lifes . A recurring motif are toddlers, their emotions and their relationship to older people, for example to their grandparents.

On his return to Greece, he turned increasingly to portraits and became one of the most important Greek portraitists.

His attitude towards French Impressionism was initially critical, but it was only later that his work began to show impressionistic features. However, he early tolerated the interest of some of his students in Impressionism.

Works (selection)

With around 200 oil paintings, Jakobides' work is considered manageable. Works were shown at the major exhibitions of the 19th century, and many of them received awards. Today there are works in museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, various German museums and private collections. Some of his main works including the “Children's Concert” and “First Steps” were created in two versions, the second version may have been created at the request of a collector.

  • Portrait of a girl , 29 × 23 cm
  • The reading girl , 1882 53 × 40 cm
  • Little Sorrows (1883 in the Munich Glass Palace)
  • The bad grandson , 1884. Original in the Wiesbaden Museum , lithograph in the Berlin State Museums
  • Farm in Bavaria , 1884
  • Lachen street boy , 1884 58 × 28 cm
  • In Father's Atelier , 1884, 73 × 71.5 cm (in the Bank of Greece collection since 1936 )
  • The grandfather and his grandson
  • La Toilette , 1887–1893, 96.5 × 71.2 cm (formerly owned by great-granddaughter Francesca Iakovidou, today in the collection of the Bank of Greece)
  • Grandmother with granddaughter 1889 (formerly Galerie Henneberg, Zurich)
  • Combing the granddaughter
  • Children's concert (1899 as "house band" at the Berlin art exhibition, today in the National Gallery (Athens) )
  • Earring
  • First Steps (The First Step)
  • Maternal concern
  • The trial stocking , 1887 (as a photographed lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl in the journal Die Gartenlaube )
  • Der Smuggler (The Smuggler), 1887
  • Children's dispute (1888 in the Munich Glass Palace)
  • Hide and seek (1896 in Munich's Glass Palace, then in Zappeion in Athens, rediscovered in 2010 when a household was liquidated in Athens) 78.5 × 62 cm
  • Grandfather's new pipe (Old man with a pipe) 31 × 26 cm
  • Vase with bouquet 53.5 × 36 cm
  • A fine variety
  • Apple still life on a silver platter 41 × 59 cm
  • Half-length portrait of a boy in a red suit 30 × 24 cm
  • Little girl in the fields 27 × 22 cm
  • Man in the field 27.5 × 22 cm
  • Boy 23 × 50
  • John F. Costopoulos , 1919 80 × 64 cm, in the Alpha Bank Collection
  • Portrait of a young woman , 51.5 × 36.5 cm, Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum
  • Babe's bathtime , 35 × 38.5 cm, Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum
  • Konstantinos M. Venizelos , 80 × 60 cm

resonance

Highly traded and acquired by museums during his lifetime, works by Jakobides fetch considerable prices to this day. Some of his works, for example the "Children's Choir" and the "Hide and Seek" have gone down in history as masterpieces of academic painting. This included engravings based on works by Jakobides, for example by Doris Raab and Ludwig Kühn, high-quality annual editions from art associations, but also simple photographic reproductions in large numbers. Today it is mainly digital prints on canvas.

However, the Greek public held back for a long time in the review of the great master. One reason could have been Jakobides' political commitment. He openly presented himself as loyal to the crown and as an opponent of the popular politician Eleftherios Venizelos . The National Gallery of Greece held a comprehensive retrospective of his work in 2005.

Awards

  • Ludwig Medal , 1878 (for his nude drawings)
  • Bronze medal from the Paris World Exhibition in 1889
  • Golden medals in Athens 1888, Paris 1890, Bremen 1890 and 1891, Berlin 1891, Munich 1893, Trieste 1895, Barcelona 1898.
  • The Greek state awarded him four medals for his services to art, including the Order of Savior .
  • Postage stamp from the Greek Post Office ELTA, 1966

literature

Web link

Commons : Georgios Jakobides  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 03507 Georg Jacobides. In: Matriculation Book 1841–1884. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Δημητρη Pηγοπουλου: Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης, ο αστός ηθογράφος ( Memento from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: H KAΘHMEPINH from November 13, 2005 (on the occasion of the retrospective in the National Gallery).
  3. ^ Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 2: Gebhardt - Küstner. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, p. 241.
  4. ↑ tovima.gr Λαμπράκη-Πλάκα, Μαρίνα: Εκθεση έργων του θα παρουσιάσει η Εθνική Πινακοθήκη Γεηγς ( ω53 article from November 6, 2005 Ι1932ως 1932 ).
  5. ↑ a b bankofgreece.gr
  6. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Harvest time in the auction house. In: welt.de . September 15, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ The trial stocking . In: The Gazebo . 1887, p. 664 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  8. ↑ artvalue.com
  9. ↑ artnews.conteart.com
  10. ↑ lostart.de
  11. ↑ alpha.gr ( Memento of December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
  12. ↑ Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . 15th year, issue, 1900 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Jakobides, Georgios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iakovidis, Georgios; Jakobides, Georg; Ιακωβίδης, Γεώργιος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek painter and academic
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Chidira on Lesbos
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1932
Place of death Athens