Ioannis Doukas
Illustration — Samson and Delilah Ioannis Doukas or Dukas (1841–1916) was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives in 19th century portrait painting in Greece.
Ioannis Doukas
Δούκας Ιωάννης · Ιδιωτική Συλλογή · Public domain
- Died
- 1916 · Athens.
- Nationality
- Greece
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Languages
- Modern Greek
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Illustration — Samson and Delilah Ioannis Doukas or Dukas (1841–1916) was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives in 19th century portrait painting in Greece.
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Ioannis Doukas studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The recorded working language is Modern Greek. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Work by Ioannis Doukas is recorded in the collections of Museum of the Bank of Greece.
Doukas was born in 1841, in Gjirokastër (then Ottoman Empire, modern Albania). He started his studies in art at the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece, in 1859. He continued his studies outside Greece: initially in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1865-1868), being a student of the German painter Karl von Piloty. He then moved to Paris and became student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Doukas worked as painter in a number of western European cities: Paris, Marseille and Vienna, where he became distinguished in the painting of portraits. At 1879 he returned to Greece, while continued to be focused in portrait painting. Doukas attended several artist's exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as the Paris Salon. He died in Athens in 1916.
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1845
Ioannis Doukas was born on 1 January 1845.
1916
Ioannis Doukas died on 1 January 1916.
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His works include historical, mythological, biblical and allegorical representations, as well as the creating of copies of distinguished painters, like Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Anthony van Dyck. He painted also a religious icon of Jesus Christ, at the Greek-Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in Liverpool, England. Doukas is classified as one of the main representatives of the so-called 'Greek Munich School'; a group of 19th Greek artists that studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and were influenced by the movement of academic realism.
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- 1.E. Averof Gallery. Mature Urban Portraiture.
- 2.Εθνική Πινακοθήκη. Δούκας Ιωάννης. nationalgallery.gr/.
- 3.Sarafianos, Aris. The Diaspora of Greek Painting in the Nineteenth Century: Christou's Model and the Case of Marie Spartali-Stillman. Historein. 6. 65. 153. 2006.
- 4.yannisstavrou.gr. Greek painters - School of Munich.
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