Nikolaos Vokos was a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 of the Munich School art movement.

Biography

He was the son of Emmanouil Miaoulis

Emmanouil Miaoulis

Emmanouil Miaoulis was a Greek naval officer. He was born in the island of Hydra in 1812, the son of Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, who became the leader of the Greek navies in the Greek War of Independence. As a member of the renowned Hydriot Miaoulis family, a naval career came naturally to him...

 and a grandson of Admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis

Andreas Vokos Miaoulis

Andreas Vokos, nicknamed Miaoulis , was an admiral and politician who commanded Greek naval forces during the Greek War of Independence ....

. He was initially enrolled in the Cadet School, but on discovering his passion for painting he left it to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts

Athens School of Fine Arts

The Athens School of Fine Arts , is Greece's premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students.-History:Athens School of Fine Arts was established on 12 January 1837, known as the School for the Arts...

 from 1874 until 1878. In 1885, after a competition, he won a scholarship to continue his studies in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 under 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...

, Ludwig Löfftz

Ludwig Löfftz

Ludwig Löfftz was a German genre and landscape painter.- Biography :He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he became professor in 1879, and of which he was director between 1891...

 and Andreas Müller

Andreas Müller

Andreas Müller is a former German footballer, who played mainly as a defensive midfielder.-Football career:...

. He remained in Munich for 16 years, running a painting school, until where he became ill and returned to Athens in 1902. He died some months later at Palaio Faliro

Palaio Faliro

Palaio Faliro is a suburb in the southern part of Athens, Greece. The area is famous for its beaches , forming Athens' nearest beach and Piraeus' only beach...

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Work

As a painter, he used several motifs. He was especially accomplished in realistic still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

. He participated in relatively few exhibitions: Munich 1898, Paris

Paris

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  1900, Athens at the Parnassos Club at 1901, etc. Among his more notable prize-winning paintings are the Fisherman (Ιχθυοπώλης), which won the Chicago Award, Epitrapezion (Επιτραπέζιον) which was bought and exhibited at the palace of the Bavarian prince Regent Luitpold

Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria

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