Konstantinos Parthenis
Konstantinos Parthenis ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Παρθένης , also Constantin Parthenis, born May 10, 1878 in Alexandria ; † July 25, 1967 ) was a Greek painter. He broke with Greek painting, the most important representatives of which were in the tradition of the naturalistic Munich school .
Life
Konstantinos Parthenis was born in Alexandria as the son of an Italian and a Greek. After a short period of study in Italy, he studied between 1895 and 1903 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach . Parthenis belonged to the artists' commune "Humanitas", which Diefenbach had founded in 1897 on the "Himmelhof" in Ober Sankt Veit , and which became the nucleus of the early alternative movement or life reform . At the same time Parthenis also took music lessons at the Vienna Conservatory. He had his first solo exhibition in 1899 in Boehm's Künstlerhaus. After studying in Vienna, he moved to Paris; from 1903 he lived in Greece where he worked as an icon painter . In 1907 he painted the Georgskirche in Vienna. His work as an icon painter is marked by a deep religiousness, but also by a break with traditional icon painting. After participating in the Venice Biennale in 1938, the Italian government bought a work from him.
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| SURNAME | Parthenis, Konstantinos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Παρθένης, Κωνσταντίνος (Greek); Parthenis, Constantine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandria |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1967 |