2024-05-22 21:05:25
A superb instance of a Greek “activist” of the diaspora in Vienna within the nineteenth century, in response to the instance of the Epirotian benefactors, is Nikolaos Doumbas, whose excellent determine the College of Ioannina selected to current, within the context of the occasions to have a good time the 60 years since its basis.
On the occasion, organized by the Faculty of Fantastic Arts of the College of Ioannina in collaboration with the Society of Greek Artwork Historians and the partnership of the Municipality of Ioannina, on Thursday night on the “Dimitris Hatzis” Cultural Area, the quick digital movie “Nikolas Doumbas 1830- 1900, a West Macedonian reformer of the youthful Vienna”. The presentation of the movie was adopted by a dialogue concerning the contribution of this eminent Greek and his period typically to tradition and the illustration of our nation overseas.
The president of the Society of Greek Artwork Historians, emeritus professor of Historical past of Artwork at AUTH Efthymia Georgiadou-Koundoura, on whose initiative the entire mission started in an effort to extrovert the Society of Greek Artwork Historians to a wider viewers, observed that, regardless of his provide, Nikolaos Doumbas didn’t get the popularity he deserved in Greece.
Nikolaos Doumbas and his household have been primarily based in Vienna within the second half of the nineteenth century. His origin was from Vlasti Kozani. The Doumba home was distinguished for its business exercise and its contribution to the financial and cultural sector. Nikolaos Doumbas was significantly inquisitive about visible arts and music. He was related to inventive currents and eminent painters and sculptors, amongst them Gustav Klimt, whereas his contribution to the rescue of Schubert’s manuscripts, world heritage of Unesco, which he collected, is noteworthy. Within the social area he distinguished himself for his charity work. In his will he left a sum of cash to the Affiliation of Viennese Artists and to the Academy of Fantastic Arts he bequeathed 20,000 forints, the curiosity of which was to be awarded, as a Duba prize, to college students of portray or sculpture. In Greece, his exercise is understood for the illustration of the Propylaia in Athens and the prominence of the Greek painter Kostas Parthenis, to whom he commissioned the illustration of a part of the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George of Vienna.
Nonetheless, though his identify was inscribed within the Golden E book of the Eminent, he continued nearly till the top of his life, when he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor of the Emperor, to be an “instance of an early activist”, who most popular merely to supply the his providers as a complete.
In keeping with Artwork Historical past professor on the Faculty of Fantastic Arts of the College of Ioannina, Areti Adamopoulou, Doumbas was “a patron of the humanities, versatile, exuding humanitarian values and the idea of “belonging”, in an period when the idea of providing was not private alternative however the results of collectiveness”.