Founder
History of The Museums
Founder
Hambis
Hambis
Hambis Tsangaris borned in Kontea in 1947. Young self-taught painter and printmaker meets with A. Tassos who gives him his first printmaking lessons, in Athens in 1971. He also studied Graphic Arts at the Surikov Institute in Moscow between the years 1976 and 1982. After his studies in Moscow, he dedicates all of his life in printmaking, creating woodcuts, lithographs, etchings but mainly linocuts and screen prints. Almost his whole printed work testifies his deep love for Cyprus. After all, as his main artistic goal, he has set and has always been true to the various expressions of his homeland. His works, in direct connection with the events experienced by his country and himself, as a refugee, give an account on the ”disasters of the war”, the sorrow of uprooted people.The joys, beauties and traditions of the island are equally reflected and depicted in prints with landscapes, traditional elements of architecture and art from antiquity, and customs. Much of his work comprises illustrations of Cypriot folk tales. Series or compositions including text and and illustration, just like in the ancient block-books, his illustrations are always prints. The production of the modern book follows.
He has illustrated and published the books:
1986, 1991 and 2010
Spanos and the forty Dragons
1994
The prince of Venice
1995
Hambis – 25 Years of Printmaking
1999, 2010
The Fay Enchantress – Anerada
2005
The kalikangiari and the game
2006
Kalikangiari – Cypriot Tales
2007
Kalikangiari – Tales in the Cyprus Dialect
Timeline
Timeline
1995
Establishment of Hambis Printmaking School in the village of Platanisteia in the province of Limassol
2005
The first contacts and discussions for the creation of the Museum in Nicosia begin
2007
Establishment of the non-profit organisation-company Printmaking School – Hambis Printmaking Museum
2008
Inauguration of the Hambis Printmaking Museum in Platanistia
2019
Inauguration of the Hambis Printmaking Municipal Museum in Nicosia
Donors
Hambis Printmaking Museum is warmly and with emotion thanking the donors of works that now belong to its collection. Among the major donors are +Jean Pierre Adam, Dimitris Alithinos, Max Andersson, Mikhail Avvakumov, Chronis Botsoglou, Stanislav Buban, Richard Burton, Andreas Charalampides, Elena Charalambous, Costas Cleanthous, Pierre & Nicole Creusot, Robert Darabos, Spyros Demetriades, Justin Diggle, + Kostas Economou, Asumi Hayashi, Toshiko Hishida, Umit Inatci, Christos Kalfas, +Sarantis Karavouzis, Wael Khaddage, Nana & +Kostis Kolotas, Glaukos Koumides, Nikos Kourousis, Yioulika Lakeridou, Stella Lantsia, Panagiotis Larkos, Rodica Lomnasan, +Jean-Paul Marchal, Nikolas Mastropavlos, Niki Menelaou, Mircea Nechita, Andreas Nicolas, Yusuke Okamura, Miyuki Okawa, Eleni Panagidou, Pino Padolfini, Liana Papaioannou, Frixos Papantoniou, +Stas Paraskos, Panagiotis Pasantas, Tamàs Patrovits, Marlene Pitta, Helène Reeb-Tsangaris, Kayoko Sakamoto-Tatsubori, Takumi Sato, Kostas Serezis, Ivan Shakhovskoy, Dimitra Siaterli, Mariam Soukhanova Foukara, Hambis Tsangaris, Universidad Nacional Autònoma de Mèxico, Evgenia Vasiloude, +Stelios Votsis,+Akis Zambartas.