[3] In 1911 Rodokanakis made his debut at an exhibition of the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti (Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts) in Genoa.
[1] Due to the armed conflicts there during the First World War, the artist ended up in Görlitz in 1916 as a soldier as part of the Greek IV Army Corps transferred to Germany.
[5] The success in Munich led to another exhibition in the Stadthalle (town hall) Görlitz in November 1918, which showed more than 50 of his works and which was extremely well received.
This major showing was opened personally by the then Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos, who was present due to peace negotiations in the French capital.
[6] In the same year, a solo exhibition of some of the painter's works took place in the premises of the Athens daily newspaper Eleftheros Typos.
The work of the three artists, which was created during this period and was briefly exhibited, was destroyed due to the acts of war in Smyrna and the great fire there in 1922.