Filippos Margaritis (Greek: Φίλιππος Μαργαρίτης , Smyrna 1810 - Würzburg 1892 ) - the first Greek photographer .
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Biography
Filippos Margaritis was born in 1810 in Smyrna, the current Izmir. His father, also called Phillipos Margaritis, was a member of the revolutionary society of Filiki Eteria. There were 5 more children in the family, of which Georgios also became a famous artist. With the beginning of the Greek Revolution of 1821, the family fled from the massacre of the Greeks by the Turks in Smyrna and found refuge on the island of Psara . Later, the family moved to Rome . Here, young Filippos studied painting at the Roman Academy, receiving a scholarship from the Greek government, returned to Greece and became a teacher at the School of Fine Arts. He remained in the position of teacher for 25 years. I was interested in photography (then it was called Daguerreotype ) from the moment this invention appeared. I executed my first photographs in 1847. He opened his shop in Athens in 1853. Political figures of his era of the surviving veterans of the Liberation War of 1821-1829 and ordinary people captured archaeological landscapes in his photographs. His photographs are documents of Greece of the second half of the 19th century. He died in 1892 in Würzburg Germany .
Literature
- Άλκης Ξανθάκης: Φίλιππος Μαργαρίτης - Ο πρώτος Έλληνας φωτογράφος. Εκδόσεις Φωτογράφος, 1990, ISBN 978-960-85120-0-9
Sources
- Μαργαρίτης Φίλιππος . (inaccessible link)
- Φίλιππος Μαργαρίτης (1810-1892) - Ο πρώτος Έλληνας φωτογράφος .
- Φίλιππος Μαργαρίτης . Archived May 16, 2010 on Wayback Machine
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119204649 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Union List of Artist Names
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists