Georgios Jakobides
Georgios Iakovidis (Greek Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης, born January 11, 1853 in Chidira on Lesbos, † December 13, 1932 in Athens), and Georgios Jakobides or Georg Jakobides, signed in Germany with G. Jakobides, was a major Greek painter and representatives of the Munich school.
Life
At the age of thirteen, his parents sent him to Smyrna to his uncle, a practicing architect, there to visit the Evangelical School. In addition to his schooling he worked. Early on, there was his interest in the arts and in particular for woodcarving. With the prospect of financial support by the timber merchant Mikhail Hatziloukas, an employee of his uncle, he decided in 1870 to go to Athens to study sculpture.
In the same year he enrolled at the Athens School of Art. His teachers were there the painter and the sculptor Leonidas Nikiforos Lytras Drosis. He completed his studies in March 1877 with the highest grade.
In November 1877 he received a scholarship from the Greek State to further his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers there were Ludwig von Löfftz, Wilhelm von Linde Schmidt and Gabriel von Max In the summer months he traveled through Bavaria and painted the villages and rural life. This work today is of great documentary importance.
With three plants Jakobides was represented at the Paris World Exposition in 1878. In the same year he founded together with Toby Edward Rosenthal a painting school, primarily for women, which he ran until 1898. His students included the Swiss Alexander Wolf ( 1864-1921 ). At that time, women were not allowed to study at the Academy. 1883 ended Jakobides his studies at the Munich Academy of Art. He was regarded as a talented academic painter and was highly regarded in Munich's society. 1889 his wife died Aglaia; together they had a daughter and a son. After the death of his wife he ceased to represent happy children naturalistic images in his works, for which he was known until then.
The Government of the Kingdom of Greece asked him to take over the construction of a state art collection, and in 1900 he was appointed its director. This collection now forms the foundation of the National Gallery of Athens, while the formal successor of the Municipal Gallery of Athens. Even in Athens, he gained a reputation as an outstanding academic painter. His clients belonged to the royal family as well as many entrepreneurs. Friendly Jakovidis was with Nicholas of Greece, who was active in his spare time as a painter. Jakovidis was a good billiard players and spent lunch time with the game.
Jakovidis taught at the National Technical University at the department of painting. When it was spun off in 1910 as a College of Fine Arts in Athens, he was appointed rector. 1917, came to the university to establish a secessionist group led by Nikolaos Lytras. Jakovidis refused their style of painting, but they tolerated. A student of Giorgio De Chirico was Jakobides. In 1926 he became a member of the Athens Academy of Sciences. In 1930 he gave up the management of the School of Art, but remained its honorary director. Jakovidis died in 1932 shortly before his 80th birthday.
Work
Jakobides was a representative of the academic naturalism of the so-called Munich school. It is attributed to the circle around Karl von Piloty; in view of the fact that he painted coloristically diversifies itself, one also speaks of pulses from the circle around Wilhelm von Diez.
During his time in Germany he devoted himself to genre painting of rural life in Bavaria and its pre-industrial structures. He painted especially children, rooms and still life. A recurring motif are infants whose emotions and their relation to older people, such as grandparents.
With his return to Greece, he turned increasingly to portraits and became one of the most important Greek portraitist.
His attitude towards the French Impressionism was initially critical, late exhibited his work Impressionist movement down. However, he tolerated early in the interest of some of his students for Impressionism.
Works (selection)
With approximately 200 oil paintings, the work of Jakobides is considered manageable. Works have been shown at major exhibitions of the 19th century, and it also many excellent. Today, works are in museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago various German museums and private collections. Some of his major works including the "Children's Concert " and " Getting Started " came in two versions, possibly created the second version at the request of a collector.
- "Girl ", 29 x 23 cm
- " The girls read ', 1882 53 x 40 cm
- " Small suffering " (1883 at the Munich Glass Palace )
- " The evil grandson ", 1884. Original in the Museum Wiesbaden, lithography in the National Museums in Berlin
- "Farm in Bavaria ", 1884
- " Lachener urchin ", 1884 58 x 28 cm
- " In Father's Studio", 1884, 73 x 71.5 cm ( in the collection of the Bank of Greece since 1936 )
- " The grandfather and his grandson "
- " La Toilette ", 1887-1893, 96.5 x 71.2 cm (formerly owned by the great-granddaughter Francesca Iakovidou, now in the collection of the Bank of Greece)
- " Grandmother with granddaughter " 1889 (formerly Gallery Henneberg, Zurich )
- " Combing the granddaughter "
- "Children's Concert " (1899 as the " house band" at the Berlin Art Exhibition, now in the National Gallery ( Athens ) )
- " Earring "
- "Getting Started" ( The first step )
- " Maternal care "
- " The sample trump card", 1887 (as photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl lithography in the journal " The Gazebo " )
- " The Smoker " ( The Smugglers ), 1887 ()
- "Children dispute" (1888 at the Munich Glass Palace )
- " Hide And Seek " (1896 at the Munich Glass Palace, then in Athens Zappeion, 2010 rediscovered under a budget resolution in Athens ) 78.5 x 62 cm
- " Grandfather's new whistle " ( Old man with a pipe) 31 x 26 cm
- "Vase with bouquet " 53.5 x 36 cm
- " A fine variety"
- " Apple still life on a silver platter " 41 x 59 cm
- " Half-length portrait of a boy in a red suit" 30 x 24 cm
- "Little girl in the fields" 27 x 22 cm
- "Man in the field" 27.5 x 22 cm
- " Young " 23 x 50
- " John F. Costopoulos ", 1919 80 x 64 cm, in the Alpha Bank Collection
- " Portrait of a young woman", 51,5 x36, 5 cm, Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum
- " Babe's bathtime ", 35x38, 5 cm, Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum
- " Konstantinos M. Venizelos ", 80 x 60 cm
Resonance
Even during his lifetime traded up and bought by museums, achieve works of Jakovidis today considerable prices. Some of his works, such as the " Children's Choir " and the " hide and seek " have accepted as masterpieces of academic painting in history. This included engravings after works by Jakobides, for example, by Doris Raab and Ludwig Kühn, high-quality annual gifts of art associations, but also simple photographic reproductions in large numbers. Today there are primarily digital prints on canvas.
The Greek public remained in the review of the great master, however long back. One reason may have been the political commitment of Jakovidis. He gave himself openly as kronloyal and as an opponent of the popular politician Eleftherios Venizelos. The National Gallery of Greece organized in 2005 a comprehensive retrospective of his work.
Awards
- Ludwig Medal, 1878 ( for his nudes )
- Bronze Medal of the Universal Exhibition Paris 1889
- Gold medal in Athens 1888, Paris 1890, Bremen in 1890 and 1891, Berlin, 1891, Munich 1893, Trieste 1895, Barcelona 1898.
- For his contribution to the arts of the Greek government gave him four medals, of which the Redeemer Order.
- Stamp the Greek Post ELTA, 1966