The painter Alexandros Kaloudis was born in Crete or Athens in 1853 and passed away in Athens in 1923.
He studied for ten years (c. 1875–1885) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under A. Cabanel and Magnan. In 1886, he was appointed as an unsalaried professor of Technical Drawing at the School of Arts in Athens, and from 1903 until 1916, he also taught Elementary Drawing and Shading.
Through an academic, realistic idiom, he rendered his favorite painting genre—still lifes, primarily featuring tabletop arrangements, fruits, and sweets—with exceptional color sensitivity, precise drafting, good lighting, attention to detail, and structural skill. His work aligned with the painterly qualities of Chardin and Fantin-Latour rather than the dazzling verism of Dutch painting, offering a painterly-tactile impression to the viewer and creating an inviting environment of spherical motifs harmonized through complementary colors and intermediate tones.
He participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including the Paris Salons and the Exposition Universelle (1878), Alexandria (1903), and others. He received an honorary commendation at an exhibition at the Zappeion in Athens in 1888.