Nikolaos Gyzis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolaos Gyzis

Greek artist

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1842

Place of Birth: Tinos, South Aegean, Greece

Date of Death: 04-Jan-1901

Profession: artist, painter, university teacher

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek: ?????a?? G???? [ni.'ko.la.os '?i.zis]; German: Nikolaus Gysis; 1 March 1842 – 4 January 1901) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters.
He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting.
It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928.
He was the major representative of the so-called "Munich School", the major 19th-century Greek art movement.