Painter, set decorator and costume designer.

Buy souvenirs? Head to Monastiraki district (just under the Acropolis, in Athens). You can wander around the flea market and buy original gifts for your friends. Visiting the Museum of the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, you can also buy a reproduction of some paintings by a Greek painter who was born in the port of this city. Something unforgettable? The group of Dora’s Stratou theatre. The dancers wear traditional Greek costumes of various regions of the country and perform songs and dances of the Greek history.

Together with other painters he led the movement for the introduction of Greek tradition in painting. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was also a student of Photios Kontoglou (who introduced him to Byzantine iconography). YANNIS TSAROUCHIS, born in Athen’s Piraeus in a January day, had become a Greek painter. He met influential artists (such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti). From 1935 to 1936 he visited Istanbul, Paris and Italy, coming in contact with the Renaissance art and Impressionism. If you wish to admire his 1958 Maria Callas’ theatrical costume, need to go at the collection of Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, in Nauplio.

YANNIS TSAROUCHIS returned to Greece in 1936, where produced his first personal exhibition in Athens. In 1949, he and other artists established the “Armos” art group. In 1958 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1982 the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum in Maroussi, Athens, http://www.tsarouchis.gr/en/main.htm was inaugurated. The Museum is actually hosted in the house of the artist. He epitomises the artistic inquiry of French modernism, with elements of the Greek traditions. His principal thematic focus is the human figure (more specifically the male nude), but you can find also his neoclassical buildings of Athens.

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