Nicolaus Davis

Nicolaus Davis (or Nikolaus Davis Greek: Νικόλαος Δάβης (1 January 1883 – 4 August 1967) was a Greek genre and landscape painter.

Biography

He was born in Amorgos as a son of a merchant. His parents moved to Athens where he visited the School of Arts as a guest lecturer. In 1908 with a scholarship he went to Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. His teachers there were Carl von Marr and Ludwig von Löfftz. Davis became member of the Muich Artist Union (Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft) and participated at the international Glaspalast exhibitions in 1918, 1919, 1922 and 1925. His studio was in Schwabing.

Nicolaus Davis died in Ebersberg (near Munich) in 1967.

Works

Especially his still lifes were reproduced as post cards.

Among his works are:

Two masted bargue in full sail
Lake Chiemsee (formerly Heinrich Hausmann Collection)

External links

http://matrikel.adbk.de/05ordner/mb_1884-1920/jahr_1908/matrikel-03591 Matrikeleintrag an der AdBK München

Literature

Dresslers Kunsthandbuch, Band II, Berlin 1930, S.169
Künstlerlexikon Vollmer, Band I., 1953, S.625
Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert, Band 5 Achmann-Kursell, 1993

References

Greek artists of the Munich School

Nikolaos Alektoridis Ioannis Altamouras Nikolaos Gyzis Nicolaus Davis Ektor Doukas Ioannis Doukas Thalia Flora-Karavia Dimitrios Geraniotis Vasileios Hatzis Georgios Jakobides Ioannis Koutsis Emmanouil Lampakis Polychronis Lembesis Nikiforos Lytras Stylianos Miliadis Georgios Roilos Epameinondas Thomopoulos Spyridon Vikatos Nikolaos Vokos Konstantinos Volanakis Theodoros Vryzakis Ioannis Zacharias

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