Joannis Avramidis

Joannis Avramidis (23 September 1922 – 16 January 2016) (Greek: Iωάννης Aβραμίδης) was a Greek-Austrian sculptor. He was born in Batumi, Georgia in 1922 to a family of Caucasus Greek origin.

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• Joannis avramidis im leopold museum
• Theartview joannis avramidis at leopold museum
• Decorations and awards
• References

He studied in Batumi and later at Fritz Wotruba in Vienna. He became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1966 in Hamburg. In 1962 he represented Austria at the Venice Biennale.

Decorations and awards

1956: State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna

1958: Austrian promotion prize for sculpture

1961: Award from the City of Vienna

1961: Hugo von Montfort-prize (Bregenz)

1964: City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts

1968: Will Grohmann-Prize (Berlin)

1973: Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Arts

1985: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art