39 Notable alumni of
Athens School of Fine Arts
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The Athens School of Fine Arts is 1061st in the world, 369th in Europe, and 4th in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from the Athens School of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Vangelis
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- musicianrecord producerpainterfilm score composercomposer
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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
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Giorgio de Chirico
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- draftspersonscenographerjewelry designerwriterpainter
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Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
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Yannis Kounellis
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- painter
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Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
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Nikolaos Gyzis
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- visual artistuniversity teacherteacherpainterart educator
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Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement.
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Yannoulis Chalepas
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- sculptor
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Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and a significant figure of Modern Greek art.
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Yannis Tsarouchis
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- theatrical directorpaintercostume designerillustratorscenographer
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Yannis Tsarouchis was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males.
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Dimitris Papaioannou
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- choreographer
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Dimitris Papaioannou is an Athenian born in 1964 who emerged from the Greek underground art scene as a defining figure. Starting as a comics creator, he became a director, choreographer, performer, and designer of sets, costumes, and lighting.
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Nikos Engonopoulos
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1932
- Occupations
- poetpaintercostume designerwriterscenographer
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Nikos Engonopoulos was a Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays.
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Thanos Leivaditis
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- actorscreenwriter
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Thanos Leivaditis was a Greek actor and screenwriter. He studied drawing at the Athens School of Fine Arts (Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών, Scholi Kalon Technon), at the workshop class of the professor Yiannis Moralis.
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Alekos Fassianos
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1955-1960
- Occupations
- writerpainterlithographer
- Biography
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Alekos Fassianos was a renowned Greek painter. He gained recognition for his distinctive style, which was characterized by immediacy and a deliberate departure from standardized painting techniques.
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Nikiforos Lytras
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- painterfaculty member
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Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He remained faithful to the precepts and principles of the Munich School, while paying greatest attention both to ethnographic themes and portraiture. His most famous portrait was of the royal couple, Otto and Amalia, and his most well-known landscape a depiction of the region of Lavrio.
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Georgios Jakobides
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- university teachercuratorpaintermedalist
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Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
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Natalia Mela
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1942-1947
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Natalia Mela was a Greek sculptor. She was the granddaughter of the fighter of the Macedonian Struggle Pavlos Melas and wife of architect Aris Konstantinidis.
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Giorgos Zongolopoulos
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1924-1930
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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George Zongolopoulos was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect. Zongolopoulos, who was often called the “eternal teenager” was a representative of the so-called “Generation of 1930s” while his work extends from the 1920s until his late life.
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Memos Makris
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1934-1939
- Occupations
- sculptor
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Memos Makris was a prominent Greek sculptor. He spent his early childhood in Patras but his family moved to Athens in 1919. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and soon became involved in the artistic and cultural life of the 1930s. During the German Occupation Makris joined the National Resistance. After the liberation he continued his studies in Paris. He was deported from France in 1950 due to his political allegiance to the Left and sought political asylum in Hungary. In Hungary he became an important figure in the country's political and cultural life. In 1964 he was deprived of his Greek nationality, which he regained in 1975 after the restoration of democracy in Greece. In 1979 his first retrospective exhibition in Greece took place in the National Art Gallery.
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Nikolaos Lytras
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- painter
- Biography
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Nikolaos Lytras was a Greek modernist painter who specialized in portraits, still-lifes and landscapes.
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George Bouzianis
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1897-1906
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.
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Spiros Vassiliou
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1921-1926
- Occupations
- painter
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Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the United States, and Canada.
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Ioannis Altamouras
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- paintermarine artist
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Ioannis Altamouras was a Greek painter of the 19th century famous for his paintings of seascapes.
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Georgios Roilos
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Georgios Roilos was one of the most important and influential Greek painters of the late 19th-early 20th century. He belonged to the so-called "Munich School". His major works include historical topics, portraits, and scenes of everyday life. One of his most famous paintings is “The Poets”, which depicts some of the most important representatives of the New Athenian school of poetry, also known as the Generation of 1880.
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Périclès Pantazis
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- painter
- Biography
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Périclès Pantazis was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century who gained a great reputation as an artist initially in Belgium.
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Georgios Bonanos
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Georgios Bonanos was a Greek sculptor.
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Thodoros Papayiannis
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1960-1965
- Occupations
- university teachersculptor
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Theodoros Papagiannis is a Greek sculptor. His work is held by many collections and stands in public places in Greece and elsewhere, including his sculpture "The Runners" at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
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Georgios Prokopiou
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- photographerdocumentary filmmakerpainter
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Georgios Prokopiou was a Greek war artist, photographer and documentary film maker. He also served as court painter to Emperor Menelik II and was a recipient of the Greek Military Cross.
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Thanasis Apartis
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- sculptor
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Athanase Apartis was a Greek sculptor. His busts of famous people and monumental works stand in many public places in Greece.
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Dimitar Dobrovich
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- painter
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Dimitar Georgiev Dobrovich was the first academically-trained Bulgarian painter and a participant in the revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states.
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Spiridon Vikatos
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- artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Spyridon or Spyros Vikatos was a Greek painter and professor. He is considered one of the later members of the Munich School.
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John Christoforou
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- painter
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John Christoforou was a British painter of Greek heritage. He spent his childhood in Greece, but returned to England in 1938. With the outbreak of the war, he joined the Royal Air Force where he flew missions in the Far East.
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Nikolaos Vokos
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Nikolaos Vokos was a Greek painter of the Munich School art movement.
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Giorgos Sikeliotis
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1935-1940
- Occupations
- scenographercostume designerpainterengraver
- Biography
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Giorgos Sikeliotis was a Greek painter and engraver. He is considered a member of the "Generation of the '30s".
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Ioannis Kossos
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Ioannis Kossos was a Greek sculptor of the 19th century. Born in Tripoli, he later studied in Athens and Florence. His work includes several statues and busts in Athens, Patras and other Greek cities.
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Yannis Poulakas
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- 1863-1942 (aged 79)
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- paintericonographer
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Yiannis Poulakas was a Greek painter and scenographer. Poulakas was professionally concerned primarily with scenography and secondarily with painting.
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Yannis Stavrou
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- painter
- Biography
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Yannis Stavrou is a contemporary Greek artist, painter.
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Ioannis Oikonomou
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- painter
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Ioannis Oikonomou was a Greek painter, xylographer, engraver and amateur athlete.
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Eleni Paschalidou Zongolopoulou
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- painter
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Eleni Zongolopoulou was a Greek painter. During her artistic career she followed the movements of Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Abstract art. She was wife of the sculptor George Zongolopoulos.
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Dimitrios Geraniotis
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- painter
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Dimitrios Geraniotis was a Greek portrait painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
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Ioannis Zacharias
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- painter
- Biography
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Ioannis Zacharias was a Greek painter.
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Yiannis Psychopedis
- Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1963-1968
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teacher
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Υiannis Psychopedis is one of the main Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism, an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968. The May 1968 student rebellions in France, the Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia, and the coup d'état establishing the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 were catalysts for this group.
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Spiros Pizanis
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- painter
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Spiros Pizanis (Greek: Σπύρος Πιζάνης; (1870, Corfu - 1927, Rome) was a Greek painter; one of their first Impressionists.
