Giannoulis Chalepas

Sleeping Girl (marble)

1878

Angel Seated (marble)

1875

Giannoulis Chalepas was born in Tinos in the 14th of August of 1851

and died in the 15th of September of 1938, in Athens. 

He is the most distinguished sculpturer of modern

Greece  with a fictional life, between madness and triumph.

The fairy tail of the Beauty II

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)

Affection (plaster)

1875

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)

Giannoulis Chalepas was, and remains, a leading figure in the modern Greek art.

His work (from which 150 pieces were saved)  is characterized 

by its classic conceptions. The element that could be appreciated by even 

the most ignorant observer, is the expressions of the face's and the bodies

 of Chalepa's sculptures, either he represents a Satyr, or Medea with her

children, or even a young sleeping girl. For this reason Giannoulis Chalepas 

can stand as equal next to the great Roden.

Large reposing female figure (plaster)

1931

Head of Ariadne (plaster)

before 1925

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)