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Michael Tombros (or Michalis Tombros, Greek: Μιχάλης Τόμπρος, 12 November 1889 – 28 May 1974) was a Greek sculptor who was influential in introducing avant-garde styles into Greece.
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Michael Tombros (or Michalis Tombros, Greek: Μιχάλης Τόμπρος, 12 November 1889 – 28 May 1974) was a Greek sculptor who was influential in introducing avant-garde styles into Greece.
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Work Sculptures by Michael Tombros were exhibited in major solo and group exhibitions including the Salon des Artistes Francais, Salon des Tuileries and Salon des Indépendants in Paris, the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, the Venice Biennale (1934, 1938 and 1956), and the São Paulo Art Biennial (1955). He played an important role in encouraging development of avant-garde art in Greece, and experimented with abstraction, cubism and surrealism. However, he was not always successful in his experiments, and often followed a more conventional academic style with commissioned works. The Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina holds examples of his sculpture.
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Life Michael Tombros was born in Athens in 1889, son of a marble sculptor from Korthio, Andros island. He attended the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1903 to 1909. He studied sculpture with Georgios Vroutos and Lazaros Sochos, and drawing with Dimitrios Geraniotis, Alexandros Kalloudis and Georgios Jakobides. He also worked at the marble sculpture workshop of N.M. Perakis. In 1910 he set up his own studio in Athens. In 1914 he obtained a scholarship from the estate of George Averoff which let him study at the Académie Julian in Paris under Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski. Michael Tombros returned to Athens in 1919 and was appointed temporary professor of Sculpture in Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), while continuing to travel and to undertake commissions. He resigned from the NTUA in 1923 due to its opposition to establishment of a war museum. In 1925 he returned to Paris, where he stayed until 1928 with a workshop in Montparnasse. There he met artists such as Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. During this period he was active in exhibitions and experimented with avant-garde techniques after encountering them for the first time. After returning to Greece, between 1933…