Constantin Dimitriadis (1879-1943) - Terracotta Bust

Constantin Dimitriadis (1879-1943) - terracotta bust Terracotta bust representing Erefherios Kirakou Venizelos (1864-1936), founder of modern Greece. Visible at the Courcelles Antiquités Gallery, at 97 rue de Courcelles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Born in 1879 and died in 1943, Constantin Dimitriadis is a Greco-Bulgarian sculptor. Pupil of the sculptor Georgios Vroutos, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, then, thanks to a scholarship at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris where he is student of Jules Coutan, and at the Académie Julian. In 1930, he became director of the Athens School of Fine Arts. He obtained an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français of 1908, of which he was a member, as well as a 3rd class medal in 1909. He won the gold medal in the artistic competition of the 1924 Summer Olympics with his sculpture representing a Finnish discus thrower. Elected member of the Academy of Athens in 1936, his works are exhibited, among others, at the Paris Salon, the Salon d'Automne and the Venice Biennale of 1936.