Bronze with greenish patina.31 x 25 x 18 cm.
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• With his sculptures Avramidis occupies an unmistakable and highly individual position in 20th century sculpting.
• As of the 1960s he showed works in international shows like the 31st Venice Biennial, the documenta III (1964) and documenta 6 (1977)
• In 1973 he was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize For Visual Art. - Avramidis' works likewise follow figuration and abstraction; among his idols were sculptors like Constantin Brancusi and Wilhelm Lehmbruck - In 2017, a year after his death, the Leopold Museum in Vienna honored him with a grand retrospective exhibition.
LITERATURE: Joannis Avramidis, "Agora". Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1953 bis 1988, ex. cat. Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, 1989, with the sculpture "Modellierte Figur" on the cover and on pp. 16, 23 (with illu.). Michael Semff, Joannis Avramidis, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Munich 2005, the sculpture "Modellierte Figur", on illu. 119/120.