Georgios Roilos
Georgios Roilos ( Greek Γεώργιος Ροϊλός , * 1867 in Stemnitsa , Arcadia ; † August 28, 1928 Athens ) was one of the most important Greek painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Roilos studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Nikiforos Lytras . With the help of a Greek state scholarship, he continued his studies in 1888 at the side of Nikolaus Gysis in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts there . Finally he completed his studies in Paris in 1890 at the side of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens .
From 1895 to 1903 he taught at the Athens School of Art. After a five-year stay in London , he returned to Athens in 1908 and taught again at the Academy of Fine Arts as a professor from 1910 to 1927.
In his works he presented a wide variety of topics, including the Turkish-Greek War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars from 1912 to 1913, historical subjects, portraits, landscapes. His early works are based on the style of the Munich School . Later, especially in his landscape paintings, an impressionism becomes recognizable, which he was one of the first to introduce in Greece.
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| SURNAME | Roilos, Georgios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roïlos, Georgios; Ροϊλός, Γεώργιος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stemnitsa , Arcadia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1928 |
| Place of death | Athens |