Background
Panayiotis Tetsis was born in 1925, on the island of Hydra, where he spent his childhood. In 1937 Thetsis moved to Piraeus.
Panayiotis Tetsis was born in 1925, on the island of Hydra, where he spent his childhood. In 1937 Thetsis moved to Piraeus.
In 1940 Panayiotis began to study painting, in the same year he met with such masters as Dimitris Pikionis and Nikolaos Gikas. In 1943, he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, next to D. Biscini.
Meeting Pikionis and Hatzikyriakos-Ghikas was to be a determining influence on his career.
In 1951 he was appointed lecturer in free-hand drawing in the Faculty of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and then he was elected professor in the Athens School of Fine Arts.
His first solo exhibition was held in 1948 at the Romvos Gallery in Athens and since then he has held more than 40 solo exhibitions and participated in at least 20 group exhibitions.
The painter Tetsis bequeathed 210 of his works to the National Gallery asking also 20% of them to be used so as to the gallery could buy art works of other artists that are missing from its collection. In his honor, National Gallery will host one of his great art work ‘Laiki agora’ at a hall that will bear his name.
The 91-year old Tetsis had realised over 90 solo shows, before he lost his battle with cancer.
His funeral were held on Monday, March 7, 2016. Tetsis’ body was buried the next day in his beloved birthplace, the island of Hydra.
The butcher shop
Ydra
Portrait of Ioannis Soukaras
Tables
Landscape
Portrait of a man
Street market
Seascape
Landsapce of Ydra
Athens IV
Landscape of Stage Ardittos
Still life named : The afternoon sun
Interior IIΙ
Still Life
Rainbow
Slaughtered Animal
Still life
Sunset
Cafe
Tables IV
Double portrait
The View From Xenokratous Street In Athens
Standing girl
Portrait of A.K
Boat
Houses
Sifnos
Garden
Still life
Tables VI
French door
Landscape
Sunset
The blue chairs II
Tables XII
Landscape
Composition with girl and still life
Cityscape
Athens
Street market
Still Life
Portrait of A.G
Still Life
The Moon
Market
Street market
Still life
Still Life
Houses
Red roofs
The incredibly talented, green-eyed, noble gentleman of an artist (often sporting a bow tie), managed to encapsulate in his paintings all the colours of Greece.
Quotes from others about the person
The canvasses of Panayiotis Tetsis’ were both poetic and euphoric, wrote Stella Sevastopoulos.