Georgios Chatzopoulos
Greek painter and restorer
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Georgios Chatzopoulopos (Greek: Γεώργιος Χατζόπουλος) (1859-1935) was a Greek painter part of the Munich School of Athens.
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Georgios Chatzopoulos was born in 1859 in Patmos. He studied in Athens and Munich, where he was under the guidance of Nikolaos Gyzis from 1883 to 1887. From 1890, year of his return to Greece, he did exhibitions in Athens and Patras. At 1896 he exhibits sea paintings at Zappeion. At 1906 he is appointed restorer at the National Gallery of Athens. His fame as restorer reached international scopes since at 1921 he was called to Bucharest in order to contribute in the restoration of old paintings of the Museum of the Romanian capital, that were destroyed by a German restorer.
He drew landscapes but mainly seas. With his painting he wanted to "portray an essence of Attica's atmosphere, not her sun [...] neither the effects of light on our soil but the rare atmospheric views which are created when the haze reaches the sea and the shore". Almost without a subject are his sea paintings: a sea and a sky.
He also executed as President of the Panathinaikos Sports Club at 1921 and he designed the cloverleaf which acts as the symbol of the team.