Then with a scholarship he continued at the Munich Academy.
He received the first prize by the Academy for his work titled “Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty” in 1874. In 1877 the first symptoms of his illness appeared, which led him to the Corfu Mental Hospital.
In 1901 he returned to Tinos with his mother, where he lived in the family home from 1902 to 1930. He was awarded the highest prize for artistic excellence and he spent his last creative years in Athens, where he died in 1938.
 Chalepas’ sculptures and drawings, expose the creator’s freedom from the structures of academicism and the conquest of personal expression. Today about one hundred fifteen sculptures by Chapepas have survived and can be seen in the National Gallery in Athens, in the exhibition of the Cultural Foundation of Tinos and in the Giannoulis Chalepas Museum at Pyrgos.
Chalepas occupies an exclusive position in the history of Modern Greek sculpture, belonging in both in 19th and 20th centuries.
 A teacher of art and the son of a sculpturer, N. Lytras was one of the prominent best of the 19th century Greek painters. He was a student of German Ludwig Thierch, the Margariti brothers, and a student of Italian Raffaelo Ceccoli and lastly Karl von Pilloty. N Lytras was the
only one of 6 children, who followed his father's artistic trails.
GYZIS:
Nikolaos Gyzis was sent to Athens in 1850 for his education. In 1864 he graduated from the School of Fine Arts. A year later he received a scholarship for the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich, where he spent all his life.
 During the initial period of his stay in Munich these works dealt chiefly with German subjects. Greek and "oriental" themes began to appear in his work after his first visit to Greece in 1873, during which he also made a trip to Asia Minor with his childhood friend and fellow student in Athens, Nikiphoros Lytras (1832–1904). These Greek and oriental themes were subsequently accompanied by the implementation of a brighter and diverse color range that was quite away from the major browns and grays of his earlier Genre pictures. He was among the first artists in Germany to create posters. A few of his paintings refer to Greek history from the Ottoman era and the War of Independence.
Gyzis is amongst the chief persons who belong to the Greek "Munich School" which was the first school of Modern Greek art. This school comprised of artists who had undertaken to further their artistic studies in Munich.
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