1937, GREECE, ARGIS KORAKAS, XANTHI, THRACE, ART BY SOFIA KEFALA

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ΑΡΓΗ ΚΟΡΑΚΑ

Απλές Ψυχές  – Aples Psyches

 

Εικόνες Σόφης Ι. Κεφάλα

 

Argis Coracas

Simple Souls

 

Illustrations by Sofi I. Kefala

 

Self-published in Athens in 1937

First Edition!

80 Pages

21cm x 15cm

Original Paper Binding

 

Argis Coracas (1888-1940) was a Greek poet and prose writer. He was born in 1888 in Xanthi or, according to another source, in Rodolivos of the current regional unit of Serres. At an early age he followed his father, who was a teacher, initially to Pyrgos in Eastern Romilia and Aghialos where he learned his first letters in the Greek schools there. He studied at the Zarifio Hellenic Gymnasium of Philippoupoli (today within Bulgaria) and the Hellenic Gymnasium of Adrianople (today in Turkey). He returned to Greece at the beginning of the 20th century. with the exchange of populations. He lived for one year in Constantinople and then for three years in Artaki of Cyzicus and Amiso of Pontus where he worked as a teacher with his father. In Amiso] he wrote articles for the newspaper “Ankyra”. After the Balkan wars he went down to Athens where he studied at the Athens Law School and worked at the “Acropolis” of Vlasis Gavrielides. He worked at the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Railway and Car.

Sofi Kefala (1912-2001) was born in Athens and was centered on Athens, but also on Kaisariani, which spoke to her as a landscape, and on Roumeli, her father’s homeland. At the age of 22, in 1934 she studied at the School of Fine Arts and attended the workshops of D. Geraniotis and Konstantinos Parthenis. In 1938, she held her first solo exhibition at the Stratigopoulos Hall with watercolors, oil paintings and drawings and received laudatory comments from I. M. Panagiotopoulos and Becke.