Rare, 1951, Children’s Booklet, Lambros Orphanos, E. Mourelou, 12 Lithograph Postcards

12 Lithograph Postcards

L’ Enseignement 

Par L’Image Et Par La Chanson 

Premier Cahier 

Cours Oral et Preparatoire

Teaching Through Images and Songs

First Book

Published by Institut d ‘Athenes in 1951

Original Soft Cover

18 cm x 12 cm

Elli Mourelou (1922 – 2011) studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1940 – 1947) with professors Argyros and Konstantinos Parthenis. She taught art at the American College for Women in Elliniko from 1947 to 1952. In the period 1952 – 1956 she studied Painting at the Ecole Supérieur National des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under J. T. Dupas and J. Souverbie and specialized in the art of mosaic painting at the École d’Art Italien, with the internationally renowned painter Gino Severini (1883 – 1966) and by Aurelio De Felice. Upon her return to Greece, she continued to work at the American College for Women of Athens from 1955 to 1979, as Director of the Fine Arts Department. She has presented her work in group exhibitions (Panhellenic 1957, 1967, 1971, 1975). He has been honored with an EOT prize for the advertising poster of Greece (1961). She distinguished herself as a painter specializing in the mosaic technique.

Lambros Orphanos (1916-1995) was a Greek painter and engraver. He exhibited for the first time in 1936 and two years later he was accepted into the painting workshops of Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied with teachers Umberto Argyros and Epaminonda Thomopoulos for four years, among fellow student such as G. Vakirtzis. In 1943, already a graduate in the field of painting, he enrolled in the workshop of engraving, where he studied under Yannis Kefallinos until 1947. In 1949 he married the painter and mosaicist Elli Mourelou. In 1952 he was the first graphic arts artist to secure a postgraduate scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (I.KY.), and left for studies in Paris. There he retrained for three years at the engraving workshop of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, with the famous engraver Robert Cami as a teacher. During his studies he was awarded the second and third prizes in engraving in 1953 and the first prize in 1954. In 1955 he was awarded the title of Maître du Burin, an extremely rare and honorable title for an engraver in France. In Paris he socialized a lot with painters and engravers such as Panagiotis Tetsis, his confidant friend until his death, Dikos Byzantios, G. Gaitis and K. Grammatopoulos. Orfanos was the only Greek engraver who designed and engraved on steel plates, a complete Central Bank banknote outside of Greece. He participated mainly in many international exhibitions (Paris, London, Lugano, Santiago, Alexandria Biennale, São Paulo Biennale, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Romania, Argentina, United States, etc.).cHis works are in the collections of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Culture, Education and Tourism, as well as in the collections of the Banks of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank, etc. In addition, his works are in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Portland Art Museum, the Getty Foundation of the United States, and the Royal Collection of Sweden as well as in large private collections in Greece and abroad.