Artist’s CV
Spyros Alamanos (Corfu, 1947 – Corfu, July 18, 2011) was a Greek painter, engraver, graphic designer and photographer.
Biography
He was born on July 29, 1947 in Corfu. His parents were the oil painter Georgios Alamanos, who at a young age was a student of the painter Angelos Pisanis, and Aikaterini Savva. He took his first painting lessons with the priest Nikolaos Kourtelesis and then studied painting at the Art School of Corfu where he later became a professor. He later studied at the Athenian Institute of Technology in Athens.[2] In 1977 he returned to Corfu where he was employed as a photographer and administrative employee at the local Archaeological Service, working alongside visual arts.
His works were presented to the public in 13 individual exhibitions of painting, photography and engraving in Corfu. He took part in many group exhibitions in Corfu, Athens, Thessaloniki, Kefallonia, Patras and elsewhere. He has designed many posters with various themes, while in 1971 he was awarded the first prize for the poster design of the Thessaloniki International Exhibition.[2] In 1993, an exhibition of retrospective works was presented in the annex of the National Gallery of Corfu.[3]
His works are housed in the National Gallery of Greece, the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, the Gallery of the Ionian Bank and the Bank of Attica, the Solomon Museum of Corfu and the Reading Society of Corfu, while most of his work can be found in private collections.[2] Even in the Corfu Art Gallery there is a huge collection of his works in the specially designed “Spyros Alamanos” room. His creation is characterized as anthropocentric while his style is surrealistic and expressionistic. His works have a dreamlike character[4].
