art.wikisort.org - Artist

Konstantinos, Costas or Constantin Dimitriadis (1879 or 1881 - 28 October 1943) was a Bulgarian-Greek sculptor who won a gold medal at the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics for his sculpture Finnish discus thrower.[1][2][3]

Konstantinos Dimitriadis
Konstantinos Dimitriadis
Born	1879 Stenimachos Bulgaria
Died	1943 Athens
Nationality	Greek

Biography

He was born in 1881[1] or in 1879[4] in Stenimachos (now Asenovgrad) in Bulgaria.

He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and then went with a scholarship to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he stayed after his studies. In 1928[1] or 1930[4] he became the director of the Athens School of Fine Arts.[1]

He was elected a member of the Academy of Athens in 1936. His works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and Salon d'Automne and the 1936 Venice Biennale. He died in Athens in 1943.[4]

Works

• Dilemma (1907)
• Finnish discus thrower (1924): three copies, including one originally in Central Park, now in Randall’s Island Park,[5] and one close to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece
• To the Defeated of Life (large work in 12 parts)
• Agia Lavra
• Liberation of Chios Island
• The Bacchae
• The Sceptic
• The Bathing Woman
• Muhammad Ali of Egypt on his horse in Kavala, Greece

References

Further reading

• Tzani, Nicoleta (2012). Costas Dimitriadis (1879-1943) : la carrière européenne d'un sculpteur grec (These de doctorat). University of Strasbourg.

На других языках

---

- [en] Konstantinos Dimitriadis

---

[es] Konstantinos Dimitriadis

Konstantinos Dimitriadis fue un escultor de Grecia, nacido el año 1879 en Asenovgrad, Plovdiv, Bulgaria y fallecido el 28 de octubre de 1943 en Atenas.

---

[fr] Constantin Dimitriadis

Constantin Dimitriadis (en grec moderne : Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης [Konstantínos Dimitriádis]), né à Stenimachos (auj. Assénovgrad) en 1879 ou en 1881[2] et mort le 28 octobre 1943 à Athènes, est un sculpteur grec.

---

[ru] Димитриадис, Константинос

Константинос Димитриадис (греч. Κωνσταντηνος Δημητριαδης; 1881 (1881), Стенимахос (ныне Асеновград, Болгария) — 28 октября 1943, Афины) — греческий скульптор.

---

---