Artist’s CV
Giorgos Sikeliotis is one of the most important Greek painters and engravers. He was born on February 4, 1917 in Smyrna, Asia Minor. In 1922, with the Asia Minor disaster, he came to Athens and settled with his family in Kaisariani. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of the National Technical University of Athens, from 1935 to 1940, where he had professors Konstantinos Parthenis and Spyridon Vikatos. The Sicilian lived and worked for long periods of time in England and France. In England, he mainly painted the industrial landscape of central England, as well as Welsh villages and landscapes. This painting and engraving work was presented in two solo exhibitions under the title “Old England” (Athens 1974, Thessaloniki 1975). During the period 1977-1983 he often moved to Paris where he organized his own painting studio. His interest was focused on the people of Paris, which consisted of a multitude of different races and nationalities. During his fifty years (1935-1984) of artistic activity, he presented his work in a large series of individual and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In Greece he presented his work in 20 individual exhibitions and in more than 185 group exhibitions. During the period 1975 – 1983 he organized in cooperation with the Municipalities, the Local Cultural Bodies and the Panhellenic Cultural Movement more than 25 individual exhibitions of “Artistic Decentralization”, such as he named them himself, with the aim of spreading the Art to the people of the region, in various provincial cities of Greece. A part of the works of these exhibitions was donated by the painter himself, to the respective Local Cultural Bodies or Municipalities. This action resulted, together with the donations of other artists, in the creation and organization of new Municipal Art Galleries in several provincial cities of Greece.
