Pavlos Rodokanakis

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Pavlos Rodokanakis ( Greek Παύλος Ροδοκανάκης , Italian Paolo Rodocanachi ; born May 29, 1891 in Genoa ; † May 16, 1958 ibid) was an important Greek painter who was born in Italy and was largely active there .

Life

Rodokanakis was born in Genoa in 1891 and came from a large, wealthy family.

He began his artistic training as a student of Giuseppe Pennasilico (1861–1940) in his hometown. He later studied painting with Giulio Bargellini (1875–1936) and graphics with Vittorio Grassi (1878–1958) at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma ( Academy of Fine Arts Rome ).

In 1911 Rodokanakis made his debut at an exhibition of the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti ( Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts ) in Genoa. He later moved to Greece, his parents' country. Due to armed conflicts there in the course of the First World War, he ended up in Görlitz in 1916 as a soldier and as part of an army corps relocated to Germany . Although he only lived there in a barrack camp for about two years, he managed to be artistically productive. His efforts to make a name for himself as a painter resulted in an invitation to Munich in the summer of 1918 . In the local glass palace he was able to take part in the annual art exhibition. This success led to the fact that in November of the same year an exhibition of more than 50 of his works was held in the town hall of Görlitz , which received an extremely positive response.

After his return to Greece Rodokanakis joined the artist group Omada Tehni, founded in 1917 . This enabled him to participate in an art exhibition in Paris in 1919 that presented contemporary Greek art . This important show was opened personally by the then Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos , who was in the French capital for peace negotiations . In the same year a solo exhibition of some of the painter's works took place in the rooms of the Athens daily Eleftheros Typos .

In the course of the Greco-Turkish War , Rodokanakis took part in an anti-Turkish campaign as an official war painter between 1921 and 1922, together with the artists Spyros Papaloukas (1892–1957) and Periklis Vyzantios (1893–1972) . The work of the three that was created during this time and exhibited for a short time was completely destroyed due to the war in Smyrna and the great fire there in 1922.

In 1923 Rodokanakis left Greece for good and moved to Genoa, the city of his birth. In Italy he managed to establish himself as an important painter. In the years that followed, several exhibitions took place there, where either only his work was presented or his work was shown together with those of other artists. In 1935, 1939, 1948 and 1952, for example, he was represented at the highly regarded national exhibitions of the Quadriennale in Rome . Special attention was his participation in the Biennale in Venice in 1934, 1940 and 1948, where he either Greece or his adopted country represented Italy.

Rodokanakis was married to the translator and writer Lucia Rodocanachi (1901–1978), née Morpurgo.

In 1958 the painter died in Genoa.

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The oeuvre of Rodokanakis is mainly of landscapes but also shaped figure paintings. Allusions to symbolism and art nouveau are unmistakable, especially in his early work. Much of the work has an impressionistic touch.

Typical of his painting style is an atmospheric, sometimes not very opaque color scheme applied with a light brushstroke.

His works are kept in the National Gallery in Athens, the Museum of the City of Athens , the AG Leventis Gallery in Nicosia and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ( National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art ) in Rome.

Honors

In Arenzano , a city in the metropolitan city of Genoa, a square bears the artist's name.

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century. Volume 4. Quaghebeur - Uzelac, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-423-05907-9 .
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs […], Paris 1999.
  • Gerassimos Alexatos: The Greeks of Görlitz 1916–1919, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7329-0414-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerassimos Alexatos: The Greeks of Görlitz 1916–1919, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7329-0414-3 , p. 67.
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century. Volume 4. Quaghebeur - Uzelac, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-423-05907-9 , p. 85.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g National Gallery: Rodokanakis Pavlos , accessed on February 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ MDR: The Greeks of Görlitz "Χαίρετε" - "Greetings!" , accessed on February 17, 2020.
  5. ↑ Byzantine Museum: “TECHNI GROUP” 100 YEARS “The first Greek Modernists And Eleftherios Venizelos , accessed on February 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ Alexatos, p. 68.
  7. ↑ ArBiQ: Paolo Rodocanachi , accessed on February 17, 2020.
  8. ↑ Greece at Venice Biennale: The Greek Pavilion , as of 2011, accessed on February 18, 2020.
  9. ↑ Guido Bonsaver: Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written, Leeds 2000, ISBN 978-1-902653-14-3 , p. 24.
  10. ↑ Franco Contorbia: Lucia Rodocanachi. le carte, la vita, Florence 2006, ISBN 8860320267 .
  11. ↑ Nikias: Rodokanakis Pavlos , accessed February 17, 2020.
  12. ↑ Google Maps: [1] , accessed on July 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Rodokanakis, Pavlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodocanachi, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1958
Place of death Genoa