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MANOLIS CALLIYANNIS (Greece, Lesbos Island b. 1923 / act: France, Nice) |
Manolis Calliyannis was born on Lesbos Island, Greece, where he lived until 1940. During the War he was a navigator in the Greek Royal Air Force. He studied architecture at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (1946-1948). He also studied painting in his spare time. He held his first one-man exhibition at the Constantia Galleries, Johannesburg, in 1948 and moved the same year to Paris, where he became a full-time painter. He received his only lessons in painting from an Impressionist painter, and became associated with the School of Paris. He first made his reputation with abstract paintings in restrained and somber colors. In 1955 he began to make regular return visits to Lesbos, and has since painted many landscapes of Greece, as well as some figure pictures. In 1960 he moved from Paris to a village near Nice.[Megakles Rogakos 03/2005]
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