Panagiotis Tetsis
Panayiotis Tetsis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Τέτσης; 1925 – 5 March 2016) was a Greek painter. Tetsis was an exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition.
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Panagiotis Tetsis
- Name
- Panayiotis Tetsis
- Born
- 1925
- Birthplace
- Hydra, Greece
- Died
- 5 March 2016
- Occupation
- painter
- Nationality
- Greece
- Education
- Athens School of Fine Arts · Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages
- Modern Greek
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Panayiotis Tetsis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Τέτσης; 1925 – 5 March 2016) was a Greek painter. Tetsis was an exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition.
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Biography
Panagiotis Tetsis studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is Modern Greek. Employment is recorded with Athens School of Fine Arts and Vakalo Art & Design College. Work by Panagiotis Tetsis is recorded in the collections of Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum, Athens, National Gallery of Athens, Corfu National Gallery, Agrinio art gallery and Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Panayiotis Tetsis • Born — 1925 • Birthplace — Hydra, Greece • Died — 5 March 2016 • Occupation — painter
Life and work
Life and work
Born in 1925 on the island of Hydra, where he spent his childhood and early teenage years, Tetsis moved to Piraeus in 1937.
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Hydra.
Birth place
Evangelismos Hospital.
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Legacy
Though the artist depicts marine themes that are familiar to him - mostly set against the backdrop of Hydra and Sifnos. “If I take a long voyage at sea, I get bored,” Tetsis says, “and I don't agree with Cavafy that headed for Ithaca we ought to hope that the voyage lasts as long as possible.” And he added: “I paint a large number of my seas from memory. I don’t need to paint them from life. And even if I do, I change them later in my studio, even changing them totally.” Balancing discipline and emotion, Tetsis regards himself as a painter driven by the senses. His singularity, according to Koutsomallis, consists in his combination of “elegiac colour tones, compositional clarity and precision, thematic variety, a monumental character and freely, openly sketched contours”. In 1949 Tetsis along with Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Yannis Moralis, Nikos Nikolaou, Nikos Engonopoulos and Yiannis Tsarouchis, established the "Armos" art group.
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