Nikos Xenos - Artist Info

About Nikos Xenos

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    Nikos Xenos born painter. He belonged to those people that their fate be specified in a class even before birth. And the Stranger category limit set was the artistic.

    Nikos Xenos was born on the beautiful island of Zakynthos in 1908. But he did not have to feel the beauty of the motherland, because economic reasons forced the family to leave the Zakynthos in 1910 to try to find luck in Athens.

    In 1924, he met C. Iakovidis, who was then Director of the School of Fine Arts, who recommended him when he saw his plans to study at the School painter. There would be able however to attend the school for economic reasons, though in the same year he met Paul Mela, the aide of the then President of the Republic Admiral Kount...

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