Nikos Engonopoulos ( Greek Νίκος Εγγονοπουλος , October 21, 1907 Athens - October 31, 1985) - Greek artist and poet. One of the main representatives of the Greek generation of the 30s, as well as a leading representative of the surrealist movement in Greece.
| Nikos Engonopoulos | |
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| Greek Νίκος Εγγονόπουλος | |
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| Date of Birth | October 21, 1907 |
| Place of Birth | Athens |
| Date of death | October 31, 1985 (78 years old) |
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| Occupation | painter |
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| Site | engonopoulos.gr |
Biography
Nikos Engonopoulos was born in 1907 in Athens, was the second son in the Arnaut family of Panagiotis and Enrietta Engopoulos. With the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, the family was forced to move to Constantinople . In 1923, Nikos was enrolled in a lyceum in Paris , where he studied for the next four years. After returning to Greece, he served as a private in the 1st Infantry Regiment. He later worked as a translator at a bank and as secretary at the University of Athens . Since 1930, Engonopoulos worked as a designer in the Department of Urban Planning of the Ministry of Public Works of Greece.
In 1932, Nikos Engonopoulos entered the Athens School of Fine Arts , where he studied under the leadership of Konstantinos Partenis . He also attended classes at the Fotios Kontoglu Art Studio. During this time he made friends with such outstanding artists as Giannis Tsaruhis , Giannis Moralis , Giorgio de Chirico, and poet Andreas Embiricos .
His first paintings, made on tempera paper, depicting old houses, were presented at the exhibition "Traditions of Contemporary Greek Art", organized in January 1938 . Shortly after the exhibition, he published translations of the poems of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzar , which were published in February. A few months earlier, his own first book was published, and the next year, a second collection. In general, Nikos Engonopoulos is considered one of the best surrealist poets in Greece.
His first solo exhibition was held in 1939 . Three years after her, he completed his popular poem, Bolivar; it is written in Greek and dedicated to the revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar and published in 1944 . The poem was also released in the form of a song in 1968 , set to music by Nikos Mamangakis. Since 1945, Engonopoulos taught at the Technical University of Athens .
Nikos Engonopoulos died of a heart attack in Athens in 1985.
Notes
- ↑ Union List of Artist Names - 2010.