Prekas Paris

Paris – Alexandros Prekas was born in Athens in 1926. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1952 where he studied painting with Dimitris Biskini, Andreas Georgiadis and Umberto Argyros. In 1957 and 1959 he was awarded a commendation and painting prize respectively in Paris, and in 1962 he was awarded the silver medal of the city of Paris, Salon de l’Art Libre. In 1963 he went to Paris to continue his studies with a scholarship from the French Government. In his painting work, he initially created figurative works with ships and Greek landscapes, he is our travel painter par excellence, to later move on to abstract forms through thematic circles such as ports, horses, tankers. Works by the artist can be found in foreign and Greek Museums, in private and public spaces (works of monumental dimensions) as well as in important international and Greek private collections. In 2019, the Sianti Gallery Art Circle presented his engravings, which are now collectibles, in the exhibition “Group Portrait – The artists of our heart”.