Collection's title
Portrait of Achilleas Postolakas, 1847
Portrait of Achilleas Postolakas, 1847
Artist
Economou Aristeidis
(Vienna 1823-Athens 1887)
CV
Economou Aristeidis
(Vienna 1823-Athens 1887)
Aristeidis Εconomou, born in Vienna, had a brilliant career as a student, in his birthplace and at the Venice Academy, where he repeatedly carried off prizes. He worked par excellence in portraiture. In his works, the clear-cut design and the crystalline lucidity in the rendering of details point to the Biedermeier technique, a style which was prevalent in Germany and Austria in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Υλικό
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
62X49
Source
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Description
Portrait of Achilleas Postolakas, a work of Ikonomou's youth, shows the numismatist Achilleas Postolakas, subsequently founder and Director of the Athens Numismatic Museum, at the time when he was a student in Vienna, while at the same time working on the organisation of the numismatic collection of the Austrian royal court. The portrait of Postolakas can be placed within the Biedermeier technique, although the effort to give a rendering of the subject's inner world by means of his radiant look distances it from that frigid technique, while the work takes on warmth and vitality, in spite of the miniaturist depiction of the details.