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Gounaropoulos, Giorgos
(b Sozopolis [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], 22 March 1890; d 1977). Greek painter. In 1906 he enrolled at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens. He graduated in 1912, but for the next seven years saw war service in the Balkan Wars and in World War I. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Paris. There he studied at the Académie Julien (until 1924) and at the Grande Chaumière, and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. His first one-man exhibition was at the Galerie Vavin-Raspail, Paris (1926). His first one-man show in Athens, however, at the Galerie Strategopoulos in 1929, gave rise to controversy, for its parallels with Parisian Surrealism made it seem a protest against the outdated academicism and chromatically subdued Impressionism that characterized Greek art at the time. Despite this, Gounaropoulos returned to Greece in 1931 and settled in Athens, where he was successful in winning a number of important commissions, such as that for the decoration of the council chamber of the town hall in 1939.
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