Jannis Psychopedis was born in Athens in 1945. He studied engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts on a scholarship (1963-1968). He pursued his studies for a postgraduate degree in painting (1971-1975) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, thanks to a German State Exchange (DAAD) scholarship, a student of Hermann Kaspar and Karl Fred Dahmen. He was an 'Art Group A' member (1960-1967), part of the art team working for 'Epitheorisi Technis' (Art Review) magazine and a member of various art groups involved in political activities: he was a founding member of the 'New Greek Realists' (1971-1973), the Figurative Arts Center (1974-1976) as well as Munich's '10/9' (1975). In 1977 he accepted an invitation the Art Program of the city of W. ...