Konstantinos Volanakis [SEP] place of death
Konstantinos Volanakis
Konstantinos Volanakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βολανάκης; 1837, Heraklion - 29 June 1907, Piraeus) was a Greek painter who became known as the "father of Greek seascape painting".
Biography.
His parents came from a small village near Rethymno. Later, they moved again for business reasons, and he completed his basic education on Syros in 1856. Afterward, urged on by his brothers, he went to Trieste and became an accountant for a family of Greek merchants who were related to his family
Athens where he opened his own painting atelier while his fame and reputation was rapidly expanding. Unfortunately, he died from tuberculosis at the age of 26. His death led his mother to a nervous breakdown and subsequent madness.
Work.
Despite his early death, Altamouras left a number of outstanding paintings, mostly small-scale. In particular, his seascape paintings that he almost exclusively produced are considered equal to the works of another great Greek painter of seascapes, Konstantinos Volanakis. In 1878, the year of his death