Special Information for the Artist
A Painter, hagiographer and engraver of the "Generation of 1930s". He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts from 1915 to 1921 under Roilos, Jakovides, Vikatos and Mathiopoulos. During the period between the two wars, he co-founded the pioneering group of artists' “Omas Techni”. A modest artist but also an innovator he tried to combine in his work the Greek folk tradition, the spirit of Byzantine hagiography and the lessons from Cubism and other artistic movements of the 20th century. His paintings are usually two-dimensional, but this does not mean that they are unrealistic. As for the subject matter, it varies from the countryside and the urban landscape to human nature. In 1974, he presented his works in the gallery "Ora" in Athens. In 1976, a year before his death, the National Gallery of Greece honored him with a major retrospective exhibition. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Rome, Ottawa, Belgrade, Moscow, Bucharest, Lugano, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo Biennial, Biennale of Alexandria, etc.). After his death, his works were ahown in, Larissa (1984), Athens (1987, Gallery "Hyacinth" 1998, Cultural Center of Athens) and Patras (1998). Besides painting, iconography and engraving, Asteriadis god involved in the illustration of books, starting with children's drawings, published in 1933 together with his colleague Spyros Vassiliou. He was an illustrator of the Modern Greek Readings for the High School (1950), the book "The Mistra of Paleologos" of Helen Valavanis (ed. Dodona, Athens 1971), etc.
