Kontoglou house, Biographical museum in Athens, Greece

Kontoglou house is a small two-storey house on Vizyinou Street 16 in Kypriadou, built in 1931–1932 to plans by architect Kimon Laskaris. It served as both home and studio of the painter, iconographer and writer Fotis Kontoglou, and now operates as a museum. A faience plaque at the entrance reads: "Here lived and worked Fotis Kontoglou from Ayvali of Asia Minor."

The house was built in 1931–1932 to designs by the architect Kimon Laskaris. In 1940, during the Occupation, Kontoglou was forced to sell it for a little oil and a sack of flour; the new owner covered the frescoes with lime, and Kontoglou moved repeatedly in the following years. His daughter Despo Kontoglou-Martinou later oversaw its conversion into a museum.

Kontoglou, a zealous advocate of a return to Byzantine tradition, painted frescoes in the front room of his house with the help of his students Giannis Tsarouchis and Nikos Engonopoulos. The murals were later covered with lime by a new owner and have since been detached; they are now in the National Gallery. A bronze bust of Kontoglou by sculptor Michalis Zervos stands in the courtyard of the nearby Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Kypriadou.

The house stands at Vizyinou 16 in Kypriadou, the old Athenian settlement where Kontoglou and other painters of the 1930s generation kept their studios. Look for the faience plaque set into the entrance wall, inscribed "Here lived and worked Fotis Kontoglou from Ayvali of Asia Minor". A bronze bust of Kontoglou by sculptor Michalis Zervos stands in the courtyard of the nearby Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Kypriadou.

The house was sold in 1940, during the Occupation, for a little oil and a sack of flour; the new owner covered the frescoes with lime. The murals were later detached and are now at the National Gallery. A bronze bust of Kontoglou by Michalis Zervos stands in the courtyard of the nearby Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos.