Petros Roumpos
Petros Roumpos was a Greek sculptor, painter and artist of the 19th and 20th century.Biography
Roumpos was born in Georgitsi, near Sparta at 1873. He studied painting and sculpting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with professors suchs as Nikephoros Lytras and Broutos.
Roumpos drew mostly portraits and busts, such the ones of architect Aristotelis Zahos, poet and play writer Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos, Rigas Feraios, Athanasios Diakos and others.
A marble bust that he made of the poet Lorentzos Mavilis is placed at the square of the same name in Athens. The artist using realistic traits of the person that was Mavilis, due to the fact that Mavilis himself, at the age of 53, posed for Petros Roumpos. The bust was placed at its current location by the Athens Municipality at 1938. The same bust exists in other three copies: in Corfu, Ioannina and at the Offices of Greek Writers.
Petros Roumpos' work includes funerary monuments, such as the one of the family of Georgios Athenogenous, with a seated winged figure, at the First Cemetery of Athens, as well as the Monument dedicated to the High priests in Tripoli, with engraved details of the acts of the Arcadians during the Greek War of Independence. He also created heroons in Magoula, Sparti and in Chios.
Petros Roumpos died in Athens in February 1942.Gallery
