Alekos Fasianos passed away tonight, at the age of 87. The emblematic painter, who sealed his time with his work, had been facing health problems in recent years.

Alekos Fasianos died his at home, having at his side his wife Mariza and their two children.

The date of his funeral has not yet been announced.

Curriculum vitae of Aleko Fasianou

Alekos Fasianos was born in Athens in 1935. He studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1955-1960) with Giannis Moralis.

Shortly after his first exhibition in Athens (1960, gallery A23), he went to Paris on a scholarship from the French government.

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There he attended lithography classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, near Clairin and Dayez (1962-64).

Eventually he settled more permanently in the French capital, where he lived for 35 years, maintaining a close and regular relationship with Greece.

The special features of his art were gradually formed, during his stay in Paris, where he had the opportunity to get acquainted, among other things, with the modern trends of the 1960s.

However, unlike other Greek artists of his generation, he did not follow the European avant-garde currents of the time.

He remained faithful to documentary painting and his Greek origins, maintaining until the end his respect for some teachings of the generation of the ’30s and his love for Greek art (ancient, Byzantine, folk).

His subjects are dominated by the human figure, which is initially attributed with a deliberate simplicity.