Name Costas Valsamis | Died 2003 | |
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Costas Valsamis (1908–2003) was a Greek Sculptor. He was born on the Greek island of Symi, Dodecanese and died in Athens.
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Biography
In 1932 he entered the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied under Costas Dimitriadis. Completing his studies in 1937, he worked as a sculptor in Athens until 1945, then was granted a scholarship by the French government.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the atelier of Marcel Gimond then, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, he was a student of Ossip Zadkine.
Awards
In 1979, he was nominated as a Knight in the Orders of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Government.
In 1987, he became a member of the corresponding French Academy of Fine Arts.
Personal life
Valsamis was married to Zoe Valsamis, a painter and graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.