Georgios Jakobides
{{Short description|Greek painter (1853–1932)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Georgios Jakobides
| image = Georgios Iakovidis (1927).jpg
| caption = Georgios Jakobides
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1853|1|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Chidira, Lesbos, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1932|12|13|1853|1|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Athens, Greece
| field = Painting and sculpture
| training =
| movement = Naturalism
| works = {{Plain list|
- The Children's Recital (Παιδική Συναυλία) (1894)
- Spring (Η Άνοιξις) (1927)
- The First Steps (Τα Πρώτα Βήματα)
- The Wife and Son of the Artist (Η Σύζυγος και ο γιος του ζωγράφου) (1898)
}}
| patrons =
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Georgios Jakobides (Greek: Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης; 11 January 1853 – 13 December 1932) was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School.{{Cite web |title=Jakobides, Georgios (1853–1932) – MMLO |url=https://mmlo.de/27940 |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=mmlo.de}} He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.{{Cite web |title=Iakovidis, Georgios |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000039713 |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Grove Art Online |year=2003 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t039713|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 |last1=Arapoglou |first1=Evita }}
Life
File:Jakobides-atelier-münchen.jpg
He was born in Chidira, Lesbos. At the age of 13, he traveled to Smyrna to live with his uncle and study at the Evangelical School. From 1870 to 1876, Jakobides studied sculpture and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Nikiphoros Lytras, and in 1877 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on a scholarship to continue his painting studies under Ludwig von Lofftz, Wilhelm Lindenschmidt and Gabriel von Max.{{Cite web |title=Iakovidis Georgios |url=https://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artist/iakovidis-georgios/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=National Gallery |language=en-US}}
In Munich, he lived for 17 years where he worked in his studio, painting mythological scenes, genre pictures, and portraits. His work is influenced by German academic Realism. His most famous paintings were depictions of children, but he was also o notable portrait painter.Karakourti-Orfanopoulou, Lambrini. Η Ανθρώπινη Μορφή στην Ελληνική Ζωγραφική του 20ου αιώνα. Athens: Ίδρυμα Β. & Μ. Θεοχαράκη. p. 13.
His works are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jakobides' opus consists of some two hundred oil paintings, several of which are on display in Europe and overseas. His son, the actor Michalis Iakovides, donated his personal journal – which includes a list of his paintings between 1878 and 1919 – to the National Gallery of Greece in 1951.{{Cite book |last=Ιακωβίδης |first=Γεώργιος |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1310401294 |title=<>. |date=2005 |publisher=Εθνική Πινακοθήκη και Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου |others=Όλγα. Μεντζαφού-Πολύζου, Εθνική Πινακοθήκη και Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου. |isbn=960-7791-22-3 |oclc=1310401294}}
Legacy
In addition to his work as a painter, Jakobides was commissioned to create designs for a number of modern Greek coins including the 1 and 2 drachma coins from 1910 and 1911, the 50 lepta of 1921, and the 10 lepta of 1922.{{Cite book |last=Divo |first=Jean-Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wy8QAQAAIAAJ |title=Modern Greek Coins, 1828-1968: A Detailed Description of Every Known Greek and Cretan Coin from the Time of Capodistrias Until the Present Time, with Valuations |date=1969 |publisher=Numismatic Department Bank Lev |pages=44–70 |language=en}}
Gallery
File:George Iakovidis - Children's Concert.JPG|Children's Concert
File:Grandma's Favorite.jpg|Grandma's Favorite
File:Portrait of King George I of Greece, National Historical Museum, 8 March 2020.jpg|Portrait of King George I
File:Queen Sofia of Greece.jpg|Portrait of Queen Sofia of Greece
File:Pavlos Melas.jpg|Pavlos Melas
File:The First Steps 1893.jpg|The First Steps (1893)
File:The Girl.jpg|The Girl
File:Ιακωβίδης, Γεώργιος - Χωριό της Βαυαρίας, προ 1890.jpg|Bavarian village
File:The Favorite by Georgios Iakovidis.jpg|The Favorite
File:Georgios Jakobides Girl reading c1882.jpg|Girl Reading
File:The Naughty Grandson.jpg|The Naughty Grandson
File:Cold_Shower_by_Georgios_Iakovidis.jpg|Cold Shower
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Georgios Jakobides}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080905000131/http://www.jakobides-digital-museum.gr/ Jakobides Digital Museum]
- [http://www.nationalgallery.gr/ National Gallery of Athens Official website]
- Andreas S. Ioannou, 19th Century Greek Art.
{{Greek artists of the Munich School}}
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