Screening of a movie about Nikolaos Doumbas – 2024-05-17 23:27:25

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2024-05-17 23:27:25

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A screening night of the digital movie “Nikolaos Doumbas, 1830-1900, a West Macedonian reformer of the youthful Vienna” is organized by the College of Advantageous Arts of the College of Ioannina in collaboration with the Society of Greek Artwork Historians (EEIT).


As Ms. Kountoura notes, the movie makes an attempt to venture the outstanding cultural exercise in Vienna of the second half of the nineteenth century, of a charismatic Greek diaspora initially from the Vlasti of Kozani. The Doumba household is counted among the many expatriate Greeks, who fled from the Turkish-ruled subjugated Macedonia to central Europe, in quest of higher luck, distinguished themselves for his or her industrial exercise and their contribution to the financial and cultural sector.
The historian Polychronis Enepikidis writes: “If Vienna turned, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the dual navel of Europe, along with Paris, if it developed an incredible exercise within the fields of visible arts and post-classical music, this, by and enormous half, is because of Nikolaos Doumbas. This Viennese with a Macedonian coronary heart, who had by no means forgotten Greece, was the magnanimous Maikina of all the good and small artists of Vienna.” (Vienna in main and minor keys, 1968).
Duba’s curiosity within the visible arts, in addition to in music and tradition, was manifested very early. In 1873 he was appointed a member of the Worldwide Jury on the Vienna Worldwide Exhibition, and together with his will he left a sum of cash to the Affiliation of Viennese Artists for the award of artists and to the Academy of Visible Arts he bequeathed 20,000 forints, the curiosity of which he stipulated to be awarded, as a prize Duba, to a scholar of historic portray or sculpture.
Figures like Doumbas and different emigrants who shined with their cultural contribution, verify what George Skabardonis lately expressed epigrammatically: “Hellenicism and its spirit is infinitely higher than its present geography. There’s a historic and imaginary superego of common affect, a non secular halo incomparably higher than the earth we possess.’
The movie, 70′ lengthy, might be screened on Thursday, Might 16, at 8:30 p.m., on the Cultural Middle “D. Hatzis”, within the presence of the researcher of N. Doumba’s work, emeritus professor of Artwork Historical past on the AUTH Efthymias Georgiadou-Koundouras. An open dialogue with the general public will observe with the participation of Efthymia Georgiadou-Koundouras and members of the College of Advantageous Arts. The occasion is underneath the auspices of the College of Ioannina and is a part of the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of its institution.
The College of Advantageous Arts expresses its heat because of the Municipality of Ioannito and particularly to the Deputy Mayor of Tradition, Professor Minas Paschopoulos for the free provision of the corridor and the superb cooperation for the group of the night.

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