41 Notable alumni of
Athens School of Fine Arts

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The Athens School of Fine Arts is 1091st in the world, 380th in Europe, and 4th in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 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.

  1. Vangelis

    Vangelis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1943-2022 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    composerfilm score composerpainterrecord producermusician
    Biography

    Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek keyboardist, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

  2. Giorgio de Chirico

    Giorgio de Chirico
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1888-1978 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    jewelry designerwriterartistscenographerprintmaker
    Biography

    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.

  3. Yannis Kounellis

    Yannis Kounellis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1936-2017 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  4. Nikolaos Gyzis

    Nikolaos Gyzis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1842-1901 (aged 59)
    Occupations
    painterteacheruniversity teachervisual artistart educator
    Biography

    Nikolaos Gyzis was 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.

  5. Yannoulis Chalepas

    Yannoulis Chalepas
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1851-1938 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and a significant figure of Modern Greek art.

  6. Yannis Tsarouchis

    Yannis Tsarouchis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1910-1989 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    costume designerpaintertheatrical directorscenographerillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  7. Nikos Engonopoulos

    Nikos Engonopoulos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1907-1985 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1932
    Occupations
    writercostume designerpainterpoetscenographer
    Biography

    Nikos Egonopoulos 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.

  8. Dimitris Papaioannou

    Dimitris Papaioannou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    choreographer
    Biography

    Dimitris Papaioannou is a Greek experimental theater stage director, choreographer and visual artist who drew media attention and acclaim with his creative direction of the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. His varied career spans three decades and has seen him conceive and direct stage works for the Athens Concert Hall, Edafos Dance Theatre and Elliniki Theamaton, work as a costume, set and make-up designer, and published over 40 comics.

  9. Thanos Leivaditis

    Thanos Leivaditis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1934-2005 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    screenwriteractor
    Biography

    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.

  10. Alekos Fassianos

    Alekos Fassianos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1935-2022 (aged 87)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1955-1960
    Occupations
    painterwriterlithographer
    Biography

    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.

  11. Nikiforos Lytras

    Nikiforos Lytras
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1832-1904 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    faculty memberpainter
    Biography

    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.

  12. Rosita Sokou

    Rosita Sokou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1923-2021 (aged 98)
    Occupations
    film critic
    Biography

    Rosita Sokou was a Greek journalist, author, playwright and translator.

  13. Georgios Jakobides

    Georgios Jakobides
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1853-1932 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    medalistpaintercuratoruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and 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.

  14. Natalia Mela

    Natalia Mela
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1923-2019 (aged 96)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1942-1947
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    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.

  15. Giorgos Zongolopoulos

    Giorgos Zongolopoulos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1903-2004 (aged 101)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1924-1930
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    George Zongolopoulos was an important 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.

  16. Memos Makris

    Memos Makris
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1913-1993 (aged 80)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1934-1939
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    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.

  17. George Bouzianis

    George Bouzianis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1885-1959 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1897-1906
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.

  18. Spiros Vassiliou

    Spiros Vassiliou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1903-1985 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1921-1926
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  19. Ioannis Altamouras

    Ioannis Altamouras
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1852-1878 (aged 26)
    Occupations
    marine artistpainter
    Biography

    Ioannis Altamouras was a Greek painter of the 19th century famous for his paintings of seascapes.

  20. Nikolaos Lytras

    Nikolaos Lytras
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1883-1927 (aged 44)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Nikolaos Lytras was a Greek modernist painter who specialized in portraits, still-lifes and landscapes.

  21. Georgios Roilos

    Georgios Roilos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1867-1928 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    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.

  22. Périclès Pantazis

    Périclès Pantazis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1849-1884 (aged 35)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Périclès Pantazis was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century who gained a great reputation as an artist initially in Belgium.

  23. Georgios Bonanos

    Georgios Bonanos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1863-1939 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Georgios Bonanos was a Greek sculptor.

  24. Thodoros Papagiannes

    Thodoros Papagiannes
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1960-1965
    Occupations
    sculptoruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  25. Georgios Prokopiou

    Georgios Prokopiou
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1876-1940 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    painterdocumentary filmmakerphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  26. Dimitar Dobrovich

    Dimitar Dobrovich
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1816-1905 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Dimitar Georgiev Dobrovich was the first academically-trained Bulgarian painter and a participant in the revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states.

  27. Thanasis Apartis

    Thanasis Apartis
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1899-1972 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Athanase Apartis was a Greek sculptor. His busts of famous people and monumental works stand in many public places in Greece.

  28. John Christoforou

    John Christoforou
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1921-2014 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  29. Spiridon Vikatos

    Spiridon Vikatos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1878-1960 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherartist
    Biography

    Spyridon or Spyros Vikatos was a Greek painter and professor. He is considered one of the later members of the Munich School.

  30. Nikolaos Vokos

    Nikolaos Vokos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1854-1902 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainter
    Biography

    Nikolaos Vokos was a Greek painter of the Munich School art movement.

  31. Ioannis Kossos

    Ioannis Kossos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1822-1875 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    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.

  32. Giorgos Sikeliotis

    Giorgos Sikeliotis
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1917-1984 (aged 67)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1935-1940
    Occupations
    paintercostume designerscenographerengraver
    Biography

    Giorgos Sikeliotis was a Greek painter and engraver. He is considered a member of the "Generation of the '30s".

  33. Yannis Poulakas

    Yannis Poulakas
    Years
    1863-1942 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    iconographerpainter
    Biography

    Yiannis Poulakas was a Greek painter and scenographer. Poulakas was professionally concerned primarily with scenography and secondarily with painting.

  34. Yannis Stavrou

    Yannis Stavrou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Yannis Stavrou is a contemporary Greek artist, painter.

  35. Ioannis Oikonomou

    Ioannis Oikonomou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1860-1931 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Ioannis Oikonomou was a Greek painter, xylographer, engraver and amateur athlete.

  36. Eleni Paschalidou Zongolopoulou

    Eleni Paschalidou Zongolopoulou
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1909-1991 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  37. Dimitrios Geraniotis

    Dimitrios Geraniotis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1871-1966 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Dimitrios Geraniotis was a Greek portrait painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

  38. Ioannis Zacharias

    Ioannis Zacharias
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1845-1873 (aged 28)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Ioannis Zacharias was a Greek painter.

  39. Yiannis Psychopedis

    Yiannis Psychopedis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1963-1968
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    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.

  40. Spiros Pizanis

    Spiros Pizanis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1870-1927 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Spiros Pizanis (Greek: Σπύρος Πιζάνης; (1870, Corfu - 1927, Rome) was a Greek painter; one of their first Impressionists.

  41. Yannis Parmakelis

    Yannis Parmakelis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts
    Studied in 1952-1958
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Yiannis Parmakelis is a Greek sculptor best known for his metal statues and medals.