Background

George Bouzianis was born on November 8, 1885, in Athens, Attiki, Greece.

Education

George Bouzianis studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts where his teachers were Nikiphoros Lytras, Konstantinos Volanakis, Georgios Roilos, and Dimitrios Geraniotis. In 1907 he moved to Munich to continue his art studies with Otto Seitz. Three years later he moved to Berlin, where he was taught from Max Liebermann.

Career

In 1917 George Bouzianis has already adopted elements of German expressionism movement in his own individual artistic style. Very soon he became a respected artist in Germany and had his first contract with the Barchfeld gallery. In 1927 in Chemnitz there was a large exhibition of his work.

Between 1929 and 1932 Bouzianis traveled a lot and lived in Paris with the financial support of the Barchfeld gallery. Due to the financial crisis across Europe, he had to return to Eichenau near Munich, where he had built a house. Unfortunately, expressionism was gradually fading away in Germany with the rise of Nazism in Germany's politics.

Two years later George returned to Greece. To his own disappointment, he failed to take a position at the School of Fine Arts of Athens. Initially, Bouzianis was treated with hostility from the Athenian artistic circles who started to appreciate his oeuvre only after his exhibition at Parnassos gallery in 1949.

In 1950 he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale and in 1952 was awarded the first prize of the Guggenheim competition for Greece. The artist died on October 23, 1959 in Athens. His house after his death in Dafni, Attica has been converted to a museum. His paintings are today exhibited at the National Gallery of Athens and in many other museums in Greece and abroad.

Achievements

• George Bouzianis was highly famous in Greece for his paintings "Self-Portrait", "Flowers", "Portrait of a man", and "Naked boy."

Works

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  • Still Life with Cheese Bread

  • Woman with Flowers

  • Portrait of Mrs Kountse

  • Portrait

  • The woman who looks back

  • Portrait of a boy

  • Self Portrait

  • Reclining Woman

  • Portrait of a man

  • Chair

  • Landscape of Eichenau

  • Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder

  • Houses in Montmartre

  • Portrait of a man

  • Portrait of a woman

  • Portrait

  • Self Portrait

  • Still life with Pomegranate and Pans

  • Naked boy

  • Portrait of Thanos

  • Landscape of Eichenau

  • Boy outdoors

  • Two women

  • Lady with Umbrella

  • Still Life with Tomatoes and Pitcher

  • Portrait of man

  • Kid eating breakfast

  • Factory in Munich

  • Father and son

  • Self-Portrait

  • Portrait

  • Still Life

  • Self Portrait

  • Houses

  • Portrait

  • Still Life with Pomegranate, Bottle and Chair

  • Still life with Fruit

  • Portrait

  • Liza Kottou

  • Old man

  • House in the Countryside

  • Portrait

  • Self-Portrait

  • Thanos

  • Young man

  • Portrait of painter's wife

  • Portrait of a Man

  • Portrait

  • Woman figure

  • Portrait

  • Still Life with Fruit and Pitcher

  • Self-Portrait

  • Portrait

  • Landscape

  • Still Life with Pomegranate

  • Trees in the riverside

  • Landscape of Eichenau

  • Portrait of the Painter Waldmulle

  • Portrait

  • Portrait Of A Woman Wearing A Scarf

  • Nude sitting woman

  • Reclining woman

  • Old woman with red scarf

  • Female Dancers

  • Portrait of Vasileios Hatzis

  • Still Life with Fruit and Chair

  • Portrait of woman

  • Flowers

  • Composition (Model)

  • Actress

  • Still Life with Watermelon

  • Naked man

  • Portrait

  • Portrait of a young man

  • View of Paris

  • Self Portrait

  • Still Life with Fruit and Pans

  • The Uncle

Views

George Bouzianis adhered to the artistic traditions of Expressionism.

Connections

teacher:

Nikiphoros Lytras

teacher:

Konstantinos Volanakis

teacher:

Georgios Roilos

teacher:

Dimitrios Geraniotis

teacher:

Otto Seitz

teacher:

Max Liebermann

References

• Bouzianis: Watercolor
  1982