Pierre Dmitrienko - Artist Info

About Pierre Dmitrienko

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Pierre Dimitrienko
  • Biography

    The son of immigrant parents, his father Russian, his mother Greek, Dmitrienko was brought up within a Russian culture. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts* in Paris, from 1944-46, Dmitrienko was attracted to the Academies grouped around Montparnasse, wholly embracing the visionary character of abstraction, and frequenting the Grande Chaumière.*

    He made his debut at the “Mains Eblouies” group at the Galerie Maeght in 1947. His success was rapid, and from 1949, when he exhibited at the Hugo Gallery, in New York, he would go on to participate in numerous exhibitions including for the next five years in Zurich, Brussels, Berlin, Stochkholm and London.

    He had his first one-man show in 1950, at the Galerie de la Paix, ...

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