Description
Yannis Kefallinos (1894-1957) – Woodcut “Saint John from Chartres Cathedral”.
No signature. With glass.
Dimensions: 38.0 X 25.5 cm (without frame). Dimensions: 61.0 X 45.0 cm (with frame).
Biography:
Giannis Kefalinos (Alexandria, Egypt, July 21, 1894 – Athens, February 27, 1957), also known as Jean Kefalinos, was a distinguished Greek engraver, book designer and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Kefallinos’ parents were well-to-do townspeople originally from Zakynthos and Chios. He graduated in 1912 from the Averopheum of Alexandria and began studying engineering in Ghent, Belgium. However, he decided to leave his studies in Ghent to study for a time in Paris, Art History and painting.
During the period 1914-1918 he returned to Alexandria to stay away from the maelstrom of World War I. During this period he studied painting and engraving. He also created his first engravings for the satirical magazine Maska (1918), which was to be published by the literary magazine Grammata. With the end of World War I, he returned to Paris where he continued to engage in engraving and book illustration. In 1922 he illustrated Joseph Rivière’s book Mer océane and two years later he illustrated Anatole France’s book Sur la pierre blanche. At the same time he married and settled in Touraine. In the following period, his work became known in Greece thanks to the writer Kostas Varnalis.
In 1930 he settled in Greece and soon took over the newly established Engraving Workshop at the School of Fine Arts. He taught wood engraving, copper engraving and lithography. Great Greek engravers such as Vasso Katraki, Kostas Grammatopoulos, Tassos (Alevizos), Giorgos Varlamos, Telemachos Kanthos and many others studied at his Workshop.
With the declaration of War in 1940, Kefallinos put his Workshop and his students at the service of the fighting Greece by issuing posters with patriotic/propaganda content. In 1942 he participated in the 2nd Professional Art Exhibition with three designs on the theme of the Athens famine. He was arrested together with three of his students (A. Tasso, Antonis Kana and Alexandros Korogiannakis) by the Italian occupation authorities for “defeatism and communist action” because of their works and were taken to Averof prisons. Later he openly supported the struggle of Cyprus against the British occupation.
He twice won the first prize at the Greek Book Exhibitions organized by the Society of Artists. In 1939 at the 9th Exhibition for the book The Death of the Physician by Pantelis Prevelakis and in 1946 at the 10th Exhibition for the book The Peacock by Zacharias Papantoniou.
During the period 1950-1954 he designed stamps in collaboration with the Hellenic Post Office. He also designed a typeface under the name “Theocritos” for the publication of the Athens Museum’s album Ten White Lykyths (1956).
From 1954 until his death (1957) he was director of the School of Fine Arts. He died on February 27, 1957 in Athens.
Yannis Kefallinos (1894-1957) – An excellent and collectible woodcut.
Code: E1053
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