Tellogleion Fine Arts Foundation of AUTH
University art museum of modern Greek painting, born from one couple's donated collection.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tellogleion Fine Arts Foundation in Thessaloniki follows Aliki Orologa, a refugee family's daughter, and Nestoras Telloglou, a businessman from Smyrna, who married in nineteen fifty-three and began collecting with an unusual plan. It turns on a puzzle in the dates: a foundation established in nineteen seventy-two that had no museum for years afterwards. Along the way you'll meet painters from Nikolaos Gyzis to Yannis Tsarouchis, best heard standing in the first gallery.
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