Georgios Jakobides was born on January 11, 1853 in the Ottoman Empire. He is best known as being a painter and the founder of the National Gallery of Greece. He studied in the Athens School of Fine Arts and later in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, in which city he ended up staying for 17 years and having his own studio. He enjoyed painting mythological scenes, but his most famous were those of children inspired by German academic Realism. He was renowned as a great German artist, but he returned to Greece after a time where he founded the Athens School of Fine Arts and taught. He objected to artistic movements such as Impressionism and urged his students to develop their own styles and follow their own passions.
Below are shown The First Steps, Children’s Concert,
and Grandma’s Favorite.
