Artist’s CV
Nikos Stefanou was born in 1933 in Piraeus. At the age of just 17, he started making sets for the theater, thus learning the art of the painter, alongside many great Greek painters and scenographers. He studied iconography, copying icons and mosaics from the Daphni Monastery and Mount Athos. He studied, with a scholarship, lithography and scenography in Paris, retrained in Vienna. He collaborated continuously with the biggest troupes, starting from the National Opera and the National Theater up to KTHBE, DIPETHE and private troupes. He was also active abroad as a scenographer in London, Paris and Vienna. In total, he shouldered the scenography in more than 100 performances at home and abroad.
At the same time, in the 1960s and 1970s, Stefanou gave the final form to the design of common areas and the decoration of facades with relief compositions in most large hotel units in Crete, Rhodes and Corfu. A central role in his painting was played by living together with his fellow painters, Alekos Fasianos and Vassilis Sperantzas in the famous “Atelier of Kallithea”. He then worked and exhibited his work in Paris where he lived with his partner and later wife Natalia Stefanou. His works are in private and state collections in Greece and France. His last major retrospective exhibition was organized in 2010 at the Benaki Museum in Piraeus.
