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1849 - 1884. Known for: Painting.
Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he... Read full biography
Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he was taught by Gustave Courbet and Antoine Chintreuil. In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he... Read full biography
Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he was taught by Gustave Courbet and Antoine Chintreuil. In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he moved to Brussels. A notable Greek wine businessman, Jean Économou, commissioned a large number of paintings. In Belgium, Pantazis became a member of an anti-academic artistic group called Circle de... Read full biography
Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he was taught by Gustave Courbet and Antoine Chintreuil. In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he moved to Brussels. A notable Greek wine businessman, Jean Économou, commissioned a large number of paintings. In Belgium, Pantazis became a member of an anti-academic artistic group called Circle de la pâte (meaning the circle of colour), and a member of Les XX. In 1878, he represented Greece at the International Art Biennalle of Paris. He died before he turned 35 years old from chronic tuberculosis.... Read full biography
Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he was taught by Gustave Courbet and Antoine Chintreuil. In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he moved to Brussels. A notable Greek wine businessman, Jean Économou, commissioned a large number of paintings. In Belgium, Pantazis became a member of an anti-academic artistic group called Circle de la pâte (meaning the circle of colour), and a member of Les XX. In 1878, he represented Greece at the International Art Biennalle of Paris. He died before he turned 35 years old from chronic tuberculosis.
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Pericles Pantazis was a Greek Impressionist painter. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1871 under Nikiforos Lytras. After a year in Munich he went to Paris where he was taught by Gustave Courbet and Antoine Chintreuil.
In 1873, with a reference letter from Manet, he moved to Brussels. A notable Greek wine businessman, Jean Économou, commissioned a large number of paintings.
In Belgium, Pantazis became a member of an anti-academic artistic group called Circle de la pâte (meaning the circle of colour), and a member of Les XX. In 1878, he represented Greece at the International Art Biennalle of Paris.
He died before he turned 35 years old from chronic tuberculosis.