Angelos Giallinas (1893), from Εστία (Home) magazine.

Angelos Giallinas or Yallinas (Greek: Άγγελος Γιαλλινάς; 5 March 1857, Corfu, United States of the Ionian Islands - 1939, Corfu) was a Greek landscape painter, known primarily for his watercolors. He was one of the last representatives of the Heptanese School of art.

Biography

Born in Corfu, Giallinas studied from 1872 to 1875 at the private art school of Charalambos Pachis.[1] Later he continued his studies in Venice, Naples and Rome[1] where he decided to devote himself to watercolors. He returned to Corfu in 1878.

He soon began participating in the "Panhellenic Exhibitions"" in Athens and presented his first solo exhibition in 1886. It was there that he met the British Ambassador, Clare Ford, who commissioned him to paint albums of landscapes from Venice, Spain, Rhodes and Istanbul. Ford also arranged an exhibit in London, which ran from 1891 to 1892, and introduced Giallinas to the British nobility.[1]

He also participated in the Exposition Universelle (1900). Two years later, he started his own private art school on Corfu. From 1907 to 1908, he painted murals at the Achilleion, a palace built by Empress Elisabeth of Austria.[1] His largest exhibition was organized in 1918 at the "Galerie D’Art Geo" in Athens. He died in 1939.[1][2]

A major retrospective of his work was held at the National Gallery of Greece in 1974.[3] Moreover his home became an art gallery. In 2010, several paintings were stolen and have not been recovered.[4] Giallnas paintings can be found at the National Gallery of Greece,[1] the Municipal Gallery of Corfu,[5] the Municipal Gallery of Larissa,[2] the Teloglion Foundation of Arts[6] etc.

The following images are watercolour paintings by Angelos Giallinas, printed in three colour lithography by Aspiotis, Greece.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Giallinas Angelos". National Gallery. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  2. 1 2 "Γιαλλινάς Άγγελος, Καλλιτέχνες ψηφιακής συλλογής , Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Λάρισας, Μουσείο Γ.Ι. Κατσίγρα". www.larissa-katsigras-gallery.gr. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  3. ↑ Brief biography Archived 2014-01-12 at the Wayback Machine @ the National Gallery of Greece
  4. ↑ "Εκλεψαν πίνακες του Γιαλλινά" Archived 2014-01-13 at the Wayback Machine (Paintings by Giallinas stolen) by Spyros Ziniatis @ ΕΘΝΟΣ.
  5. ↑ marcosp (2017-12-09). "Aggelos Yallinas – ΠΙΝΑΚΟΘΗΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΥ ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑΣ". Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  6. ↑ "H ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΑ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΕΛΛΟΓΛΕΙΟΥ ΙΔΡΥΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ Α.Π.Θ. ΣΤΗΝ ΑΘΗΝΑ. Η πρώτη της παρουσίαση". B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music (in Greek). Retrieved 2023-11-13.

Further reading

  • Aeron Charline, Angelos Giallinas, Onym Press, 2011 ISBN 613-7891-18-6
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