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Kontoglou, Fotis
(b Ayvalik, Turkey, 8 Nov 1896; d Athens, 13 July 1965). Greek painter, printmaker and writer. An ardent believer in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine tradition, he was brought up in a monastery but left Ayvalik in 1913 to study painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. His studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he travelled to Paris with Spyros Papaloukas; he returned to Ayvalik in 1919, but after the Greco-Turkish War of 1922 he settled in Athens, where he spent the rest of his life. The political crisis had a profound impact on his development in that he devoted himself to the Byzantine ideology as, in his view, the only genuine expression of the Greek spirit.
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