Oumbertos Argyros - Artist Info

About Oumbertos Argyros

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Umbertos Argyros
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    Kavala, from 1877 to 1882 - 1963. The existing literature does not agree as to the painter's birth time and have been several different dates.

    He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts (1900 - 1904), with their teachers Nikiforos Litra and C. Roilos. In 1906 he continued his studies at the Munich Academy.

    In 1929 he was elected professor at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, where he taught until 1953. In his workshop, have studied many later leading Greek artists such as the painter Fotis Zacharias, the Telemachos Kanthos engraver, sculptor Christos Capralos, the painters George Manousakis, Yiannis Moralis Yannis Spyropoulos, etc.

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