Stefanou Nikos

Nikos Stefanou was born in 1933 in Piraeus. At the age of just 17 he started making sets for the theater, thus learning the art of painting, alongside many great Greek painters and set designers. He studied hagiography, copying icons and mosaics from the Monastery of Daphni and Mount Athos. He studied, with a scholarship, lithography and scenography in Paris, trained in Vienna. He collaborated continuously with the biggest troupes, starting from the National Opera and the National Theater to the KTHBE, the DIPETHE and private troupes. He has also been active abroad as a set designer in London, Paris and Vienna. In total, he undertook the scenography in more than 100 performances inside and outside the country.
At the same time, in the 60s and 70s, Stefanou gave the final form to the configuration of common areas and the decoration of facades with relief compositions in most large hotel units in Crete, Rhodes and Corfu. In his painting, the co-housing with the peer painters, Aleko Fasiano and Vassilis Speranzas, played a central role in the famous "Atelier of Kallithea". He then worked and exhibited his work in Paris where he lived with his partner and later wife Natalia Stefanou. His works are in private and state collections in Greece and France. His last major retrospective exhibition was organized in 2010 at the Benaki Museum in Piraeus.