Nicolai Vokos Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1854 - d. 1902

Nikolaos Vokos (Born 1854 Hydra, Greece - Died August 7, 1902 Athens, Greece) was a Greek painter of the Munich School art movement. He was the son of Emmanouil Miaoulis and a grandson of Admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis. He was initially enrolled in the Cadet School, but on discovering his passion for painting he left it to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1874 until 1878. In 1885, after a competition, he won a scholarship to continue his studies in Munich under Nicholaos Gysis, Ludwig Löfftz, and Andreas Müller. He remained in Munich for 16 years, running a painting school, until where he became ill and returned to Athens in 1902. He died on August 7, 1902, at Palaio Faliro, Athens.