Theophilos Chatzimichael
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Theophilos Chatzimichael
Theophilos Chatzimichael · Auctioned by bonhams.com Δημοπρατήθηκε από τον οίκο bonhams.com · Public domain
- Born
- 1870 · Vareia and Lesbos.
- Died
- 1934 · Lesbos.
- Nationality
- Greece
- Occupation
- painter · iconographer
- Languages
- Modern Greek
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The recorded working language is Modern Greek. Places of work recorded in the authority are Greece. Work by Theophilos Chatzimichael is recorded in the collections of Municipal Art Gallery of Rhodes.
![Pavlos Melas was killed near Statissa (sic), town of Kastoria betrayed by the Bulgarians in 1906 October 10. Natural pigments on cotton tissue, 120 cm x 71 cm. Theophilos Museum, Mytilene, Greece. [NB. Pavlos Melas was killed in Statista (now "Melas") on 13 October 1904.]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Theophilos_Hatzimihail_Pavlos_Melas_1929.jpg/800px-Theophilos_Hatzimihail_Pavlos_Melas_1929.jpg)
Pavlos Melas was killed near Statissa (sic), town of Kastoria betrayed by the Bulgarians in 1906 October 10. Natural pigments on cotton tissue, 120 cm x 71 cm. Theophilos Museum, Mytilene, Greece. [NB. Pavlos Melas was killed in Statista (now "Melas") on 13 October 1904.]
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Near the river Granicus, Alexander the Great killing Mithridates, son-in-law of the King of Persia 220 BC. Natural pigments on cardboard, 70 cm x 101 cm. In private collection. Auctioned by Bonhams and sold for £90,000 on Nov. 16, 2016.
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1870
Theophilos Chatzimichael born at Vareia, Lesbos.
1934
Theophilos Chatzimichael died at Lesbos.
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Vareia and Lesbos.
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Lesbos.
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- 1.Lampraki-Plaka, Marina· Karakourti-Orfanopoulou, Lamprini, ed. (2020). Η ανθρώπινη μορφή στην ελληνική ζωγραφική, 20ός αιώνας. Athens: Ίδρυμα Βασίλη και Μαρίνας Θεοχαράκη. p. 23.
- 2.In the novella Vasilis Arvanitis, Stratis Myrivilis describes a coffee house near the Karini spring in Lesbos as famous because “its walls, inside and out, are covered with pictures and designs by the painter Theophilos.” Of Theophilos himself he writes: “He was a strange man and people thought him half crazy.” (Stratis Myrivilis, Vasilis Arvanitis, translated into English by Pavlos Andronikos [Armidale: University of New England Publishing Unit, 1983], pp. 51-2.)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Yannis Tsarouchis, Theophilos (Athens: The Commercial Bank of Greece, 1966).
- Odysseas Elytis, The Painter Theophilos, pub. Ypsilon, Athens 1996. .
- Kitsos Makris, The Painter Theophilos at Pilios, 3rd εdition, εκδ. Δημοτικού Κέντρου Ιστορικών Ερευνών, Αρχείων και Εκθεμάτων Βόλου, Volos 1998. .
- Ε. Παπαζαχαρίου, Ο άλλος Θεόφιλος, εκδ. Κάκτος, Αθήνα 1997.
- Ντ. Παπασπύρου, Θεόφιλος Γ.Χ. Μιχαήλ, εκδ. Ιανός, Θεσσαλονίκη 1998. .
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