Giannis Tsarouchis
Giannis Tsarouchis ( Greek Γιάννης Τσαρούχης , born January 13, 1910 in Piraeus , † July 20, 1989 in Athens ) was a Greek painter and set designer.
Tsarouchis studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts between 1929 and 1935 . On the side he took private lessons with the important Greek artist Fotis Kontoglou , who introduced him to the art of Byzantine painting. After graduating, he visited Istanbul before traveling to Paris via Italy. In Italy and France he came into contact with the works of the Renaissance and Impressionism and met Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti .
He had his first exhibition in Greece in 1938. After the Second World War, numerous international exhibitions followed, including in London , Paris and New York . In 1956 he was nominated for the Guggenheim Prize. In 1958 he took part in the Venice Biennale . When the colonel's dictatorship came to power in Greece in 1967 , Tsarouchis left the country and settled in Paris. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returned to Greece. His home in Athens has been a museum of the artist's works since 1982.
Tsarouchis furnished the house of the gallery owner Alexander Iolas with works.
Web links
- Website of the Tsarouchis Foundation ( Memento from June 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), (English)
- Interview with Giannis Tsarouchis
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| SURNAME | Tsarouchis, Giannis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tsarouchis, Yannis; Tsarouchis Jannis; Τσαρούχης, Γιάννης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piraeus |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1989 |
| Place of death | Athens |