Dimitra Tserkezou
Dimitra Tserkezou (1920–2007) was a Greek sculptor. Tserkezou was born in Istanbul to a Greek family who then moved to Athens, where she graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1946; she went also to Milan where she practiced metal moulding art from 1966 to 1971. Her first participation was at the 4th Panhellenic Exposition in 1952 and her two first individual expositions took place in 1953 at Thessaloniki (Chamber of Commerce and Industry & 18th International Fair of Thessaloniki). Since then, she developed an artistical activity participating at many salons and expositions in Piraeus, Athens, Milan, Rome, Turin, Paris, Strasbourg, Monaco, Deauville, Biaritz, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Quebec etc. Forty of her statues decorate public places and gardens in Greece (Athens, Syros, Chios and many other towns)[1] as well as many collections (as for instance in Zurich, in Vatican or Washington – White House).[2] Her art is neorealist and figurative in a simple, expressive and dynamic construction; her compositions are full of humanism (her subjects are mostly chosen in modern everyday life); she gives life to the hard materials of marble, bronze, cement and new metals. Awards
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DeathShe died in 2007 in Athens, Greece. References
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