George Pol Georghiou

George Pol Georghiou (Known as "Georghiou")

Master Modernist Painter, Chronicler of the Cypriot Liberation Struggle

Born 1901-09-22

Famagusta, Cyprus

Passed Away 1972-08-06 Famagusta, Cyprus

Lifespan 70 years old

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"I paint with the raw, brilliant sunlight and the ancient agony of our Cypriot landscape."

Archival Overview

Cyprus's premier modern figurative painter whose monumental expressionist canvases recorded the island's medieval heritage, rural folk rituals, and the heroic 1955–1959 EOKA liberation struggle.

Biographical Record

George Pol Georghiou was born on September 22, 1901, into a prominent merchant family in Famagusta. After reading law at Middle Temple in London, Georghiou abandoned the legal profession at age forty to dedicate his life entirely to painting.

Working in dramatic expressionist oils with swirling Gothic-Byzantine perspectives, Georghiou created unforgettable masterpieces such as The Imprisoned Graves and Cyprus after the Rain. Praised by Sir Winston Churchill and Lawrence Durrell, his works hang in the Imperial War Museum in London and the State Gallery of Contemporary Art in Nicosia.

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Famagusta Greek Orthodox Cemetery
Famagusta, Cyprus

                         GPS: 35.1210, 33.9420                    

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