What was Ernestos Ziller for Athens?



What are our sources for Chiller? What were his studies and how did he meet Theophilos Hansen?

When he arrived in Athens with Hansen in 1861, where was the city historically located then? How does Chiller's relationship with George I and Charilaos Trikoupis come about and take shape?

Ziller takes on very high positions, such as the Chair of Architecture of the current Polytechnic, but also a managerial position in the Ministry of the Interior. How does he respond and why does he lose each of them?

What is his work, visible and invisible, in the city today? What was Ziller to Athens and what was Athens to Ziller?

Marilena Kasimati is an Art Historian with basic studies and a PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Munich. From 1984 to 2017 she worked as a curator at the National Gallery-Museum Al. Suju. He has taught History of Art at the Universities of Crete and Athens and authored the first volume on Studies in European Culture (EAP, 2008). He was the representative of the Ministry of Culture at the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO. She was the first artistic and organizational director of the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania. He has extensive curatorial and writing work in Greece and abroad and participation in international conferences and lecture programs. He was actively involved in the museological study of the new National Gallery (2016). He studied and published the work of Ziller (Archive of the National Gallery, retrospective exhibition 2009, bilingual edition of the "Memories" manuscript) and Theofilos Hansen (monographic exhibition, bilingual catalogue, 2014). He is a member of the international research group "National Identities - International Pioneers" (under the auspices of the European Union), the Association International des Critiques d'Art - AICA-GREECE and a founding member of the Society of Greek Art Historians.


In the image: Decoration of a large wall with three openings, perhaps for the crown prince's palace (today's Presidential Palace), Herodos Attikou Street, 1897. From the collection of the National Gallery.

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