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Nikos Engonopoulos (
October 21,
1907 –
October 31,
1985) was a modern
Greek painter and
poet. He is one of the most important members of the Greek Generation of the '30s as well as a major representative of the
surrealistic movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays.
Biography
Nikos Engonopoulos was born in
Athens in
1907 and was the second son of Panaghiotis and Errietti (Henrietta) Engonopoulos. During the summer of
1914 when Nikos Engonopoulos family went on a trip to
Constantinople his family was obliged to settle there, due to the outbreak of
World War I. In
1923, he was enrolled in a
lycée in Paris, where he studied for a period of four years. After his return to
Greece, he served as a private in the 1st Infantry Regiment. Later on he worked as a
translator in a
bank and as a secretary at the University of Athens. In
1930 Engonopoulos was employed as a
designer in the Urban Planning Department of the Greek Ministry of Public Works.
In
1932 he joined the
Athens School of Fine Arts, where he studied under the supervision of
Konstantinos Parthenis. He also attended classes at the art studio of
Photios Kontoglou. During that time he met important artists, the poet
Andreas Embirikos and painters such as
Yannis Tsarouchis,
Giorgio de Chirico and
Yannis Moralis.
His first paintings, mostly
temperas on paper depicting old houses, were presented at an
Art of Modern Greek Tradition exhibition, organised in January
1938. Soon after the exhibition, he published translations of poems by
Tristan Tzara, which were published in February. A few months later, his first collection of poems (
Do Not Distract the Driver) was published, followed by a second one (
The Clavicembalos of Silence) the next year. Overall he's considered one of the finest surrealist poets of Greece.
His first individual exhibition was held in
1939. Three years later, he finished his most popular long poem
Bolivar, a Greek Poem, inspired by the revolutionary leader
Simón Bolívar and published in
1944. The poem was also released in the form of a song, in
1968, with music composed by
Nikos Mamangakis.
He died of a heart attack in
1985.
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