Yiannis Tsaroychis

Background

Yiannis Tsaroychis was born on January 13, 1910, in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece.

Education

Yannis Tsarouchis studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts during 1929 – 1935. He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs.

Career

Together with Dimitris Pikionis, Kontoglou, and Angeliki Hatzimichali, Yannis Tsarouchis led the movement for the introduction of Greek tradition in painting. From 1935 to 1936 he visited Istanbul, Paris, and Italy. He came in contact with the Renaissance art and Impressionism. He discovered the works of Theophilos Hatzimihail and met influential artists such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti.

Yiannis returned to Greece in 1936 and two years later he produced his first personal exhibition in Athens. He later fought in the Greco-Italian War in 1940. In 1949, he and other artists, including Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Yannis Moralis, Nikos Nikolaou, Nikos Engonopoulos, and Panayiotis Tetsis, established the "Armos" art group. In 1951 he had exhibitions in Paris and London. In 1958 he participated in the Venice Biennale and in 1967 he moved to Paris.

Yannis Tsarouchis filled his canvases with images of vulnerable men and (to a much lesser extent) strong women. In 1982 the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum in Maroussi, Athens, was inaugurated. He died in Athens in 1989. The Museum is actually hosted in the house of the artist.

Achievements

• Yannis Tsarouchis was greatly famous for his paintings "Boats in susnet", "Athens Archaeological Museum", "Entrance of country house", and "Landscape of Olympia."

Works

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  • Self Portrait

  • Sketch

  • Spring

  • Sailor dressed up as Cupid with dragonfly wings

  • Little beach

  • The Areopagos

  • Sailor

  • Maquette for the record cover of Xarkakos's One Afternoon

  • Dionysus, drunk

  • Sailor with a pink face

  • Worktime

  • First idea for the Spirit of boredom, above Piraeus

  • Alain as ''Jenuary''

  • Swimming and drawing practice

  • Landscape of Olympia

  • Mariner reading on pink background

  • Four men at a cafe

  • Sketch

  • Cyclist with a red vest

  • Alonia

  • Dominic as ''Summer''

  • Illustration for Cavafy's poem Lovely White Flowers

  • The Thinker

  • Montrouge rose in an English cup

  • Sailor on pink background

  • Man with butterfly wings , sitting, study from life

  • Portrait of a young aviator

  • Reclining nude

  • Entrance of country house

  • Cyclist in front of a backdrop by Sotiris Spatharis

  • Athlete

  • Cyclist dressed up (with traditional Greek costume) and a temple on the right corner

  • ''Autumn''

  • Koundouriotissa or Woman from Eleusis

  • Still life with baskets

  • Gendarmerie sitting on bed with a fallen rose

  • Observatory as seen from a house near Monastiraki

  • Portrait of young man in winter

  • Theofilos dressed up as Alexander the Great

  • Landscape

  • Girl , Psara, Psarianh

  • Mavrokephalos coffee-house

  • Mementos of the Dead Fiancee

  • Schizophrenic

  • Cafe ''Neon'' at night

  • The Forgoten Guards

  • Kid with white short trousers

  • Dancing in real life and in the theatre

  • Study of Dominic's portrait

  • Evgenios Spatharis as an angel at the apotheosis of Athanasios Diakos

  • Military Policeman arresting the spirit

  • Coffee-house at Porto Rafti

  • Landscape of Olympia

  • ''Winter''

  • Eros on the cross and Stella Violandi

  • Still life on yellowish background

  • Half Naked Pianist

  • Young man standing like Olympia's statue wearing pajamas

  • Italian nude sitting

  • Bather

  • Self portrait of painter with his model

  • Copying Titian

  • Asleep beneath the fig-tree and a chimney

  • Cafe ''Neon'' at day

  • Dark-haired youth seated, with a topcoat

  • Self portrait of painter with his model

  • Departure with oval mirror

  • Nude

  • Study for the ''Four Seasons'' painting

  • Alain as ''Winter''

  • Version of a Portrait with Paper Flowers

  • Remembering 1954

  • Practice

  • Winged spirit buttoning his underpants

  • Head of a Youth

  • Sailor

  • Despina with lacy shirt

  • Alain as ''Summer''

  • Officer mariner on pink background

  • Alexandras Square in Piraeus

  • Rocks with two sailors

  • Study for a wall-hanging with a theme from Elytis’s poem Axion Esti

  • Man on horseback and bather standing

  • St James the Persian, from Meteora 1931

  • Boats in susnet

  • Study for ''May''

  • Tsamikos dance on the shore

  • Sailor

  • David's Dream

  • Athens Archaeological Museum

  • Centaurs and Lapiths

  • Sailor without shoes sitting on couch

  • Two men with butterfly wings , black shoes

  • Study for ''May''

  • Taverna at Perama with dancing to a juke box

  • Nude youth with oleanders and a bandage on his hand

  • Horseman and bather with house

  • Portrait of a woman

  • Mariner and reclining nude

  • The Spirit of the Technique

  • Military Policeman arresting the spirit

  • Sketch

  • St Sebastian

Views

Yannis Tsarouchis adhered to the artististic traditions of Realism and Expressionism.

Membership

Yiannis was a charter member of the Armos group.

Interests

• Artists

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