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Velissaridis Giorgos

Date of birth: 01-01-1909
Date of death: 01-01-1994
Art Works 15

BIOGRAPHY

He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1930-1935) drawing and engraving. For two years in 1939 he worked in lithographic department of planning and model implementation of national bank. In his work portrays landscapes of Greece, dead natures and high comedian scenes. He also combines impressionistic and cubist elements, following a course of shaped that led him in abstraction. He presented also his work individually (Ersis 1989, 1993). In 1990 he organized retrospective of his work in the EPMAS and in 1995 in the Hyacinth. Since 1933 he participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He was member of the artistic team “Free Artists” and of the Team “Greek Painters-image graver”, “International Union of Wood designers “Xylon”, team “Laboratory” as well as founding member of KEE (EETE) which he was chairman of.