Tetsis Panagiotis

He was born in 1925 in Hydra to a native family and was the son of a restaurateur. He remained in Hydra until 1937 when, after his studies in the A 'Gymnasium, his family settled in Piraeus, first in the city center and, after the German Occupation, in Kallipoli. He took his first painting lessons in 1940 from the German painter and woodcutter Klaus Frieslander, while at the same time he became acquainted with Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Gikas and Dimitris Pikionis. After graduating from the six-grade High School, he studied Law, which he quit after a short time. During the last year of the German Occupation he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1949, after studying under Dimitrios Biskinis, Pavlos Mathiopoulos and Konstantinos Parthenis. Later, thanks to a scholarship, he completed his studies at the Paris School of Fine Arts in the period (1953-1956), where he studied etching.