The Secret Garden of Fotis Kontoglou Images
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Associate Professor in History of Art, Faculty of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Fotis Kontoglou, apart from his well-known prose writing, translating, wall and icon painting, was also an important illustrator of publications from the 1920s until the end of his life in 1960s. In this article we are briefly presenting the most important stations of his long artistic creation, both his secular and his religious work, while an aspect of his relationship with his young apprentice Yannis Tsarouchis is revealed so far: the appropriation by Kontoglou of paintings made by Tsarouchis' disciple in the 1930s. Τhis appropriation, a really strange page in the History of Modern Greek Art, revealed for the first time by Tsarouchis in a documentary about his life many decades later and after Kontoglou died!
Key words: Fotis Kontoglou, Yannis Tsarouchis, painting, illustration, appropriation, History of Modern Greek Art
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Author for correspondence: dempavl@arch.uoa.gr
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