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Iakovidis, Georgios
(b Mytilene, Lesbos, 11 Jan 1853; d Athens, 13 Dec 1932). Greek painter. He studied painting and sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Athens (1870–76), and in 1877 he went to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich to continue his painting studies under Karl Theodor von Piloty. He lived in Munich for 17 years, painting genre pictures, mythological scenes and portraits. Influenced by German academic Realism, his most famous paintings were of children (e.g. First Steps, 1890s; Athens, N.G.). In 1900 he was invited by the Greek government to return to Athens to organize the National Gallery, and in 1904 he was appointed Director of the School of Fine Arts. In addition to genre paintings, mythological scenes and some landscapes, at this time he produced formal portraits of eminent Greeks (e.g. King George I, 1910; Athens, N. Hist. Mus.). He opposed all new artistic tendencies, including Impressionism and Expressionism, yet his late, rather decorative paintings of nudes, still-lifes and flower compositions oddly betray a form of reserved academic Impressionism (e.g. Spring, 1927; Athens, N.G.).
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