Konstantinos Parthenis

Konstantinos Parthenis (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Παρθένης, also Constantin Parthenis, born May 10, 1878 in Alexandria, † 25 July 1967) was a Greek painter. He broke with the Greek painting, whose most important representatives in the tradition of the naturalistic school in Munich.

Life

Konstantinos Parthenis was born to an Italian mother and a Greek in Alexandria. After a brief period of study in Italy, he studied 1895-1903 he. At the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach Parthenis belonged to the artistic community " Humanitas ", which Diefenbach was founded in 1897 on the " Himmelhof " in Ober Sankt Veit, and became the nucleus of the early alternative movement or life reform. At the same time took Parthenis also music lessons at the Conservatory in Vienna. He had 1899 in Boehm's Künstlerhaus His first solo exhibition. After his studies in Vienna, he moved to Paris; From 1903 he lived in Greece where he worked as an icon painter. In 1907 he painted from St. George's Church in Vienna. His work as an icon painter is marked by a deep religiosity, but also from a fraction of traditional icon painting. After his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1938, the Italian government acquired one of his works.

• Painter (Greece )
• Painter ( Austria )
• Greek
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1967
• Man