Ioannis Poulakas (1863-1942): Painter and Theatrical Stage Designer

The Greek painter and scenographer Ioannis Poulakas born on January 1st, 1863, in St George of Nileia in the periphery of Volos Greece and died at the age of 79 in Athens on February 21, 1942. Although son of a modest means' family, as a highly promising pupil he received, through the Church circles, a scholarship and transferred to Constantinople at age of fourteen where he finished high school and studied Drawing, Scenography and Music

In this metropolitan center of Eastern Europe, he stayed seven years from 1878 to 1885, indulging in Byzantine art and hagiography, as well as European artistic movements of the time. There, he was professionally dealing prima...