Acheloos Painter

Acheloos Painter
Athlete bringing jumping weights into play; that is, actually jumping, and an aulos player, theme on a black-figure lekythos by the Acheloos Painter. The vase is located in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Inventory Number 1892, Berlin.
Born	Unknown. The name vase is a black-figure amphora depicting Herakles fighting the river god, Acheloos. Before 525 BCE
Died	About 500 BCE
Nationality	Greek
Known for	Vase painting
Notable work	Worked at Athens
Movement	Black-figure style, Leagros Group.

The Acheloos Painter, active around 525–500 BCE in Athens, was a vase painter of the black-figure style. This painter's scenes were like those of the Leagros Group; however, unlike the Group's work, the Acheloos Painter's themes are comic episodes, similar to modern cartoons. Herakles was a favorite topic, as were banqueting scenes. The banqueters were portrayed satirically: overweight, aging, bearing huge, jutting noses, and so on. The heroic is made anti-heroic by parody. The artist's preferred vase forms are amphorae and hydriae.^[1]