Argyros Oumbertos - Art Lexicon

Lexicon of foreign painters in Macedonia between 1850-1950

Oumbertos Argyros (1882 – 1963), Greek

Born in Kavala in 1882, died in Athens in 1963. He was a major Greek impressionist. Argyros studied at the Art School of Athens in the class of Nikiphoros Lytras. During the World war 2, he was an official government war artist from the Greek-Italian front. His paintings can be found in the Military Museum of Athens. Argyros visited the region of Aegean Macedonia in the 1920s. His painting “Snowy Village in Macedonia” was sold via Auction House Bonhams, London UK on 13-December 2005

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This lexicon is a result of my 15 years long period of researching & documenting the personalities and the artworks of the foreign painters, sculptors, illustrators, and photographers having visited different spots of the geographic territory of Macedonia, there having created works of art there over a 100-years long period i.e. between 1850-1950. Their presence and artwork in the Macedonian milieus represent a notable cultural heritage to the international linkage of the ethnic Macedonians as well as to all the ethnicities living in the picturesque territory of Macedonia and the cultures of modern-day countries spread over parts of the geographic territory of Macedonia. Witnessing the artistic contributions of the foreign artist, we are proud of their Macedonia-themed creative works and experiences. I believe that their artworks, having been inspired and created over the vast region of Macedonia, unite us all in these challenging times, and under the facts and the values of the artistic beauty.

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