1870 - 1934
Of humble origins, he left his island in 1883 and lived in Smyrna until 1897, when he returned in order to volunteer for the Greek-Turkish War. He then lived in Volos and the villages of Mount Pelion, where he made painted decorations in houses and shops; he was not accepted by the locals, due to his peculiarity as a person. In 1926/1927, disillusioned, he returned to his native island for good, where he continued to paint. A few years before his death, introduced by Fotis Kontoglou and Giorgos Gounaropoulos, he made the acquaintance of Tériade, who commissioned from him works in order to organise an exhibition in Paris (which finally took place in 1936). The effective discovery of his work by the Generation of the ’30s occurred posthumously. In 1964, at Tériade’s expense, the Theophilos Museum was erected in Vareia. The Yannis Kontos mansion at Anakassia, Volos, whose painted decoration, made by Theophilos in 1912, survives intact, is also known as the Theophilos Museum.
In his works – wall-paintings, paintings on objects or cloth – his personal world unfolds, in which figures from legend, tradition and historyexist side by side with images from his everyday reality, captured with the authenticity, imagination and originality of folk painting.
Επικoινωνία
Για να εγγραφείτε στη λίστα αλληλογραφίας της Λεβεντείου Πινακοθήκης, συμπληρώστε αυτή την αίτηση.
Η Λεβέντειος Πινακοθήκη τηρεί τον Γενικό Κανονισμό Προστασίας Προσωπικών Δεδομένων (GDPR). Για την εγγραφή σας στη λίστα αλληλογραφίας ζητείται η καταχώρηση του ονοματεπωνύμου και της ηλεκτρονικής σας διεύθυνσης. Τα στοιχεία αυτά συλλέγονται για την ενημέρωση σας για τις δραστηριότητες και εκδηλώσεις της Λεβέντειου Πινακοθήκης μέσω ηλεκτρονικής αλληλογραφίας.
Αποθηκεύονται με ασφάλεια, απαγορεύοντας την κοινοποίηση σε μη εξουσιοδοτούμενα άτομα και σε τρίτα μέρη, ενώ διατηρείτε το δικαίωμα διαγραφής των δεδομένων σας και κατάργησης της εγγραφής σας από τη λίστα αλληλογραφίας ανά πάσα στιγμή.
May-2023: Lefteris Economou
January-2023: Ektor Doukas
December-2022: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
November-2022: Nikolaos Vokos
October-2022: Louis-Léopold Boilly
September-2022: Dimitrios Galanis
August-2022: Raoul Dufy
July-2022: Adamantios Diamantis
June-2022: Konstantinos Panorios
May-2022: Daniel Seghers
April-2022: Pericles Pantazis
March-2022: Theodoros Vryzakis