Telemachus Kanthos

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Telemachos Kanthos ( Greek Τηλέμαχος Κάνθος , born February 24, 1910 in Alona / Pitsilia , Cyprus ; † November 18, 1993 in Nicosia ) was a Cypriot painter and the first graphic artist on the island. He is considered to be one of the fathers of Cypriot art. In his paintings he represented a. a. the Cypriot landscape and country life.

1929 Kanthos went to Athens to first architecture to study, but he soon devoted himself exclusively to painting and graphics . He was a student of Dimitrios Biskinis , Spyridon Vikatos and Oumbertos Argyros ; Yannis Tsarouchis and Nikos Engonopoulos were among his fellow students at the Athens School of Fine Arts . In Yiannis Kefallinos learned Kanthos lithography , woodcut and copperplate engraving .

With the beginning of the Second World War he returned to Cyprus and worked as a painter and graphic artist. Between 1942 and 1949 he worked as a set and costume designer for the newly established Cypriot theater. 1942-44 he worked as an art teacher at the grammar school in Famagusta and between 1950 and 1969 at the "Pankyprion Gymnasion" in Nicosia . He also traveled to various European cultural metropolises and in 1950 he stayed for a long time in London , where his interests were both the old masters and contemporary art movements. After 1975 he was a freelance artist. As a painter he worked in Cyprus, Athens, Corfu, London and Vienna.

Kanthos had his first solo exhibition in Famagusta in 1934. Many solo exhibitions and participation in numerous international art exhibitions followed. a. in London, Athens, Vienna , Boston , Cairo , Belgrade , Prague , Sofia , Bucharest , Budapest , Alexandria and Baghdad . Particularly noteworthy are the large retrospective in the National Gallery of Greece in Athens (1982) and an exhibition in the court gallery in the Palais Pálffy in Vienna (1991).

In 1979 Kanthos was honored with an award from the Academy of Athens for his life's work and contribution to the arts. In 1984 he won the 2nd prize in the woodcut category at the XV. Biennale of Alexandria .

In 1999, Paschalis Papapetrou released a 73-minute documentary about Kanthos

literature

  • Telemachus Kanthos. (Exhibition catalog, Greek / German, 20 pages, conception and design: Eugenia Kanthou and Georgea Solomontos, ed. Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Berlin, 2004). An exhibition by the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the Greek Cultural Foundation Berlin, May 4th to June 4th, Berlin 2004.
  • Christos Chrysanthos, Eleni Kanthou: Tilemachos Kanthos. To portreto enos dimiurgu. Politistiko Idryma Trapezes Kyprou, Leukosia 2005, ISBN 9963-42-821-5 , 2 volumes, Greek

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief information on www.onlinefilm.org , accessed on April 16, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kanthos, Telemachus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κάνθος, Τηλέμαχος (Greek); Kanthos, Tilemachos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cypriot painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Alona , Cyprus
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1993
Place of death Nicosia