Konstantinos Volanakis
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Heraklion
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, Crete
Crete
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, 1837- d. 29 June 1907) was a Greek
Greece
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painter
Painting
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, considered one of the best of the 19th century. Born to a wealthy family, he went to Trieste
Trieste
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, Italy
Italy
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, in 1856 where he took up painting. He studied in the Munich Academy. He is one of the foremost representatives of the Munich School, a Greek artistic movement of the 19th century. Michalis Oikonomou
Michalis Oikonomou
Michalis Oikonomou was a Greek impressionist painter. He was born in 1888 in Piraeus in the Attica prefecture and went to school there. His first art teacher was Konstantinos Volanakis...
, another Greek painter, was one of his pupils.
He died in 1907. His works are today exhibited in major museums in Greece and abroad.
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See also
- National Gallery of Greece