Demetrios Galanis - Artist Info

About Demetrios Galanis

Name variants

Emmanuel Galanis Demetrios, Dimitrios Galanis, Emmanuel Demetrius Galanis
  • Biography

    Emmanuel Galanis Demetrios, also known as Demetrius Emmanuel Galanis, was a Greek painter who became a naturalized Frenchman. He was born in Athens on 22 May 1882 and died in Paris on 20 March 1966. First a satirical cartoonist and landscape painter, he later became involved in printmaking including woodcuts, etchings and mezzotints.

    In Paris, he entered the studio of Fernand Cormon at the School of Fine Arts in 1900. He worked in collaboration with food comic or satirical French newspapers such as L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Cri de Paris], Gil Blas, Le Rire, Le Canard Sauvage, and German publications, such as Simplicissimus, Lustige Blätter. Meanwhile, Galanis also produced adverti...

    But wait, there's more...

    Displaying 3,029 of 5,649 characters.

    Subscriber Members, please Sign In for full artist biographies and all services.

    For non-paying users, good news! Full text bios for all artists are available every Friday.

    If you are not currently a member, please See Details about membership.

** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at .

Share an image of the Artist: .