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Ithakisios Vasileios (1877-1977) – Painting “Boat”, oil on canvas. Dimensions: 59.0 X 41.0 cm.
Biography:
Vassilios Ithakisios was born in Akrotiri, Mytilene, on February 26, 1877. His father was originally from Ithaca, but he married in Mytilene and settled there permanently, where he practiced the profession of shipbuilder. He, however, was engaged in painting. His real surname was Georganas, but he adopted “Ithaca” from his father’s origin.
For twenty years he chose to stay on Olympus, in a cave, suggested to him by Christos Kakkalos, the Litochoritis who was the first to climb the top of Olympus. “Here neither the snow nor the water stands,” Kakkalos told him, and Ithaca settled there to spend 20 summers. He named it “Muse Asylum” and lived there in his loneliness as a true artist. “I owe the health and endurance I have until today to Olympus,” Ithaca said in 1976 at the age of 99.
He did not enroll himself in any School, although his works can generally be considered neo-impressionist. “My school is the eternal source of inspiration and the mental response with the landscape and the person. … Definitely Olympus and its alternating beauty, at all hours and in all seasons, is my only inexhaustible source “, says Vassilios Ithakisios.
He spent the last years of his life in the “Melathron Retirement Home” nursing home. He always longed for Olympus and wanted him back. In May 1977, at the age of 100, he was hospitalized in a nursing home, as he now had frequent hallucinations. During one of them, he managed to lower the railings of his bed, went to the window to look at Olympus and as he bent down, he fell below a height of one meter and was hit deadly.
Ithakisios love for the area of Olympus, had as a result that he very often mentions Litochoro as “my village”. In July 1960, the then Community of Litochoro, wanting to honor Ithakisios Vasileios, declared him an honorary citizen of Litochoro.
Today, the Municipal Gallery of Litochoro bears the name “VASILEIOS ITHAKISIOS”, as a minimum tribute to the painter, who adored and praised Olympus with his art.
Ithakisios Vasileios (1877-1977) – Painting “Boat”, oil on canvas – An exceptional and collectible painting.
Code: E258
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