Costas Plakotaris
(1902 - 1969)
Costas Plakotaris was active/lived in Greece. Costas Plakotaris is known for painting.
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Biography Costas Plakotaris
Costas Plakotaris received
his early instruction in painting at Robert College in
Constantinople under K.I. Kotis. In 1922, he went to
Germany to study at the painting and printmaking
workshops of the Reimann Schule, in Berlin, under the
modernist painter and member of the Novembergruppe,
Moritz Melzer. In Berlin, Plakotaris also studied
political and economic sciences. He moved to Athens in
1925, after spending ten months in Paris.
In his
biography he noted, "The Cubist movement, then
flourishing in Germany, influenced me… Yet, I gradually
reali(source:
www.nationalgallery.gr)
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