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Αλαμάνος Σπύρος
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Alamanos Spyros

He was born on July 29, 1947 in Corfu. His parents were the oil painter Georgios Alamanos, who at a young age was a student of the painter Angelos Pizanis, and Aikaterini Savva. He took his first painting lessons next to the priest Nikolaos Kourtelesis and then studied painting at the Corfu School of Art, where he later became a teacher. He later studied at the Athenian Institute of Technology in Athens. In 1977 he returned to Corfu where he was hired as a photographer and administrative officer at the local Archaeological Service, working in the field of art.

His works were presented to the public in 13 solo exhibitions of painting, photography and engraving in Corfu. He took part in many group exhibitions in Corfu, Athens, Thessaloniki, Cephalonia, Patras and elsewhere. He has created many posters with various themes, while in 1971 he was awarded the first prize for the design of the poster of the Thessaloniki International Fair. In 1993, an exhibition of retrospective works was presented in the annex of the National Gallery of Corfu.

His works are housed in the National Gallery of Greece, the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, the Gallery of the Ionian Bank and the Bank of Attica, the Solomos Museum of Corfu and the Corfu Reading Society. private collections. Even in the Corfu Gallery there is a huge collection of his works in the specially designed room "Spyros Alamanos". His creation is characterized as anthropocentric while his style is surreal and expressionist. His works have a dreamy character.

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