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Roilos Georgios

Date of birth: 01-01-1867
Date of death: 01-01-1928
Art Works 54

BIOGRAPHY

He was born in Stemnitsa of Gortinia, in 1867 and died in Athens, in 1920.

A painter who is well known for his work on historical and war themes. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and as a student of Gysis in Munich while later he went to Paris and worked with well-known artists.

Upon his return to Greece he was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts and took part as a painter on war themes, in the war of 1897 and in the Balkan Wars of 1912-13.

 His works on war themes are distinguished for their truth and often for their impressionistic emphasis, while his portraits are imposing with their external integrity and their esoteric expression.