The Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum is an art Gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 in Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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. It is sited in Marousi

Marousi

Marousi , alternative forms: Maroussi, Amarousion, and Amaroussion, is a suburban city NE of Athens, Greece. The Athens Olympic Sports Complex, the largest sports complex in Greece, is also located here; its main street is Kifisias Avenue, and also contains four ISAP train stations and two of the...

 near the metro station. Its founder Prodromos Emphietsoglou gave his private art collection of over 500 works to the public.
These days the Emphietsoglou gallery offers a review of 750 works of modern Greek art including some of the best paintings from the last 200 years.

History

Since 19th century Prodromos Emfietzoglou and his family due to their interest in Greek art were collecting works of various Greek painters.Their passion in combination with many artists' donations led in 1999 to the foundation of the museum. Today the collection is composed of paintings, sculpture, photography, engravings and video installations.

The Gallery

The museum is cited in Maroussi in 3.000 m2 next to the collector's residence.
Today there are about 750 works of 260 Greek artists.The works are distributed in the museum's building, in the surrounding open area and some are exposed in the collector's residence but in spite of this spatial division visitors are allowed to visit all the works.
The last years several educational happenings are arranged. It is calculated that about 20.000 students took part in these happenings.

Collection

The collection of the Gallery includes major artworks by notable Greek Artist such us:

• Nicholaos Gysis
  Nicholaos Gysis
  Nikolaos Gyzis was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928...
  
  
• Nikiphoros Lytras
  Nikiphoros Lytras
  Nikiphoros Lytras was a nineteenth century Greek painter. He was born in Tinos, and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860 he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held...
  
  
• Konstantinos Parthenis
  Konstantinos Parthenis
  Konstantinos Parthenis born in Alexandria, Egypt was a distinguished Greek painter. Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with traditional themes, like the figure of Christ, in his art.-External links:*...
  
  
• Yiannis Moralis
  Yiannis Moralis
  Yiannis Moralis was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the 30s".-Life:...
  
  
• Yiannis Gaitis
• Takis
  Takis
  Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...
  
  
• Vaso Katraki

Visitor information

• Location: Foinikon Str.,Anavryta, Maroussi, Athens 151 26, Greece, Athens, Greece
• Tel.: 0030-210-8097100
• Opening hours: Sun 10 am - 6 pm - Educational programms:Teu-Wed 9.45 am, 11.30 am.