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Takis
Takis (1925 - 2019) was born in Athens, under the name Panayótis Vassilákis, is a Greek sculptor, acting mainly in the field of kinetic art.
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Yannis Gaitis, Ios Island
Yannis Gaïtis (1923 - 1984) was born in Athens, is a popular Greek painter who left behind an immense quantity of works throughout the world. He kept a playful and mischievous spirit throughout his life which he would later communicate to his figures, so typical of his art.
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Costas Tscoclis
Costas Tsoclis (1930 - ), was born in Tinos, is a Greek Postwar & Contemporary painter.
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Yiánnis Móralis
Yannis Moralis (1916 - 2009) or Giannis Moralis was born in Arta. He was a multifaceted art figure who was awarded several distinctions in Greece and abroad. He was among the leading figures of twentieth-century Greek art — a great painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer and teacher whose works reflect the wealth of his visual imagination and the broad spectrum of his quests.
His painting is a fundamental expression of “Greek-style modernism” and his overall contribution to Greek art is seminal and indisputable.
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Alékos Fassianós
Alékos Fassianós (1935 - 2022) was born in Athens, is a Greek painter. He is internationally recognized for his figurative paintings, representing the contemporary world in a mythological manner.
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John Christoforou
John Christoforou (1921 - 2014) was born in London to Greek parents from Smyrna. In 1935 he entered the Athens Academy of Fine Arts. Over the course of the next sixty-two years he presented his work in over fifty solo exhibitions and participated in more than one-hundred group exhibitions throughout the world.
John Christoforou is recognized as an important pioneer of the Nouvelle Figuration (New Figuration), an international movement that emerged in the early 1960’s from the abstract art movements of the previous decade and included leading artists such as Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.
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Georges Zongolopoulos
Georges Zongolopoulos (1903 - 2004) was born in Athens, married to the artist Eleni Paschalidou-Zongolopoulou (1909-1991).
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Opy Zouni
Opy Sarpaki Zouni (1941 - 2008) was born in Cairo. Her family roots originate in Crete and Santorini. She lived and worked since 1963 in Athens.
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Yánnis Spyrópoulos
Yannis Spyropoulos (1912 - 1990), was born in Pylos of Messenia, is a famous Greek painter of the second half of the 20th century. In 1933 he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Eight years later he had the opportunity to study in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Mountain landscape in Andros I, 1954. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, Alexandros Soutsos Museum.
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Michael Tombros
Michael or Michalis Tombros (1889–1974) was a Greek sculptor who was influential in introducing avant-garde styles into Greece.
Michael Tombros was born in Athens in 1889, son of a marble sculptor from Korthio, Andros island.
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Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos)
Pavlos Dionyssopoulos (1930 - 2019) known as Pavlos, was born in Filiatra, is a Greek visual artist, painter, sculptor who lived most of his life in Paris, France.
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Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis (1936 - 2017) was born in Piraeus, and settled in Rome in 1956, where he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts and in the ’60s already emerged as one of the protagonists of the Arte Povera movement in Italy. By using materials such as iron, carbon, fire, wood, stone etc he promotes through his wall constructions and installations the primordial poetical nature of things and their political – cultural depth.
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (Cavalli), 1967, 12 horses, installation view at Galleria L’attico, Rome, 1969.
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El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 - 1614), most widely known as El Greco, "The Greek", was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.
La Santa Faz. The Veil of Saint Veronica (early 1580s). Oil on canvas. The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
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Níkos Engonópoulos
Níkos Engonópoulos (1907 - 1985) is one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece.
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Yannis Tsarouchis
The House, Studio and Museum of Yannis Tsarouchis (1910 - 1989) at Marousi
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Spyros Vassiliou
Spyros Vassiliou (1903 – 1985) was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece in 1960.
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Panos Valsamakis
Panos Valsamakis (1900–1986) was a Greek artist-ceramicist, born in Ayvalik. He is the founder of art ceramics in Greece.
The Shop: www.valsamakisceramics.com
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Dico Byzantios
Dico Byzantios (1924 - 2007) was born in Athens, son of the renowned painter Pericles Byzantios. He was enrolled in the Paris School of Fine Arts and became friend with intellectuals and great artists, including Serge Poliakoff, Pierre Soulage, Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël, Jean Fautrier, and especially Alberto Giacometti.
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Panagiótis Tétsis
Panayiotis Tetsis (1925 - 2016) was born on the island of Hydra. He was an exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition.
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Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1979. With the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Andros.
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Vorres Museum, Athens
The Vorres Museum is the vision of Ian Vorres. The museum is dedicated to contemporary Greek art and folk art.
Located in Paiania in an area covering about 3 acres and is housed in a complex of buildings totaling 4,500 square meters, which is surrounded by extensive courtyards and gardens.
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National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum
Explore the treasures of the National Gallery through 20,000 artworks of painting, sculpture, engraving and other art forms.
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The George Economou Collection
The George Economou Collection is a private collection located in Athens. Rooted in history, social awareness and aesthetics, the collecting activity began evolving in the 1990s with a focus on early twentieth-century European art and has expanded to include an important holding of postwar and contemporary art.
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Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum is a museum of Greek art and history founded in Athens by Antonis Benakis in 1930.
The secret GHIKA GALLERY.
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Theocharakis Foundation, Athens
The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music was founded as a non-profit Foundation for the public benefit in 2004 and opened its gates to the public in December 2007. Through its Spyros Papaloukas permanent collection, it maintains a focus on Modernist art, while investigating its development over the centuries to the contemporary art world of today.
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EMST, Athens
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) is permanently located at the former FIX brewery.
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NEON
NEON is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2013 in a former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens, by collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos OBE, that works to bring contemporary culture closer to everyone. www.ddcollection.org
RULE II by Antony Gormley, Delos Island
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Deste Foundation (Athens, Hydra)
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution established in Geneva in 1983 by collector Dakis Joannou. With exhibition spaces in Athens and Hydra.
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The SNFCC was created at the initiative of and with an exclusive grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Designed by Renzo Piano, the SNFCC hosts the new premises of the Greek National Opera (GNO) and the National Library of Greece (NLG).
At the heart of this public domain lies the Stavros Niarchos Park, the largest public Mediterranean garden in the world.
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Onassis Stegi
The Onassis Foundation was established by Aristotle Onassis in 1975. Over the last 15 years, Onassis Stegi has been a dynamic space where contemporary creativity intersects with aesthetics, science, and the arts.