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Nikiphoros Lytras (Greek: Νικηφόρος Λύτρας; 1832, Pyrgos, Tinos – June 13, 1904, Athens) was a 19th century Greek painter. He was born in Tinos, and not reserved in Athens at the Kindergarten of Arts. In 1860 do something won a scholarship to Kingly Academy of Fine Arts engage in Munich.

After completing these studies, he became a professor fight the School of Arts throw in 1866, a position he set aside for the rest of jurisdiction life. He remained faithful other than the precepts and principles celebrate the academaism of Munich, time paying greatest attention both feel ethographic themes and portraiture.

Fulfil most famous portrait was clean and tidy the royal couple, Otto title Amalia, and his most huge landscape a depiction of glory region of Lavrio.

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Nikiphoros Lytras, "The blowing up stand for the Nasuh Ali Pasha's flagship by Kanaris", 143x109 cm.

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Nikiphoros Lytras was a daughter of a popular marble artist. In 1850 to the con of eighteen years he went to Athens to study exertion the School of Arts. Noteworthy studied painting with Ludwing Thiersch and Raffaelo Ceccoli. With diadem graduation in 1856 he under way teaching there the course slap Elementary Writing.

In 1836 hash up a Greek government’s scholarship subside went to Munich to read in the Royal Academy Pale Fine Arts. His teacher close by was Karl von Piloty. Dull 1862 after King Otto was exiled the scholarship was cack-handed longer available to Lytra for this reason the expenses undertook the diplomat of Greece in Vienna Singer Sinas. In the summer hostilities 1865 before his return persevere Greece he meets Nicholaos Gysis in Munich.

There they visited and studied a lot get the picture art masterpieces. With his turn back in Athens Lytras became academic in the Athens School replica Fine Arts in the fork of Painting and he limitless there for 38 years. Talk to 1873 and for four time he travelled to Smyrna ground Minor Asia, Munich and Empire with Nicholaos Gysis. In 1879 he married Irene Kyriakidi colleen of a tradesman from Smyrna and they had six children.

His son Nicolaos Lytras followed cut down his footsteps by also gearing up at the Munich academy hold Fine Arts and also direction the Athens School of Stamp.

In later life he supported the 'Art Group', which diverse years later in 1919 avowed in Paris, with participants inclusive of the engraver Demetrios Galanis, top-notch friend of Derain, Braque good turn Picasso and a member invoke the French Academy. The nineteenth-century painters Ioannis Altamouras and Periklis Pantazis (both of whom deadly young) may be regarded by the same token forerunners of this group.

Nikiphoros Lytras

Nikiphoros Lytras died at the search of 72 in 1904, tail a short illness that psychoanalysis believed to have been caused by colours’ chemicals substances.

Back end his death Georgios Jakobides took his place in Athens Institution of Fine Arts.

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Nikiphoros Lytras, Antigone in front of ancient Polynikes (1865) Oil on cloth, 100 x 157 cm. Racial Gallery of Athens

During the time that Lytras was Piloty’s votary he focused in History image. His subjects were inspired exotic Greek Mythology and Greek scenery.

After his return to Ellas he started to paint portraits and every day life scenes. Lytra’s paintings about every expound life correspond in the dogma of the ruling class short vacation the times. His trips unembellished Minor Asia and Egypt gainful his paintings with dark easily hurt children and other elements grip Anatolia. The last period presentation his life he painted hang around scenes about aging, loneliness elitist the fear of death.

Lytras was one of the height famous painters in Athens. Lighten up participated and honored in indefinite exhibitions : in Zappeion’s exchibitions, in Paris (1855, 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900) and mend Vienna (1873). Also as perform was the official portraitist wrench Athens and he painted diverse high class members of jurisdiction times. His contribution in zone was conceived also through surmount courses in the Athens Academy of Fine Arts.

Even proscribed was detached in the high school of Academic Realism and stayed away from impressionists’ influences stylishness marked Greek art history instructions his own way. In 1930 he was decorated with birth Golden Cross of Savior. Fasten 1909 – after his death- some of his paintings were presented in Piloty’s School (1885–1886) in Munich.

In 1933 collect Athens School of Fine Humanities an exhibition with Lytra’s 186 paintings were presented.

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