Born on September 4, 1870, in Helsinki, Finland, died in 1942 in Athens, Greece. He studied art between 1890 and 1895 at the Art Academy in Helsinki. Made study trips to Paris and Florence afterwards. Since 1927, he moved to Greece where he lived in Thessaloniki and Athens until the end of his life. There, he produced more than 250 works of art, many of them depicting the daily life of Thessaloniki or the surrounding Aegean Macedonian towns and villages. His works of art can be found in Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki and in J.P. Kostopoulos Foundation in Greece.
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Where is the grave of Gerard Chowne?
For some painters, Macedonia was their final destination. Gerard Henry Tilson Chowne (1875 India – 1917 Macedonia) was a British painter that was educated at