He was born in Smyrna in 1899 and died in Athens in 1972. As a fifth-grade student at the Gymnasium of the Evangelical School of Smyrna, he took sculpture lessons from the Armenian sculptor Papazian—in whose workshop he also worked—and drawing lessons from the painter Ithakisios.
In 1919, he left for Paris to study sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts; however, he only stayed there for two months, choosing instead the free academies: Académie Julian, under teachers M. Landowski and L.H. Bouchard, and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, under A. Bourdelle. Simultaneously, he studied at the Rodin Museum and the Louvre, earning a living by making plaster casts of commercial works.
He lived in Paris for twenty years (1919–1939), where his work, influenced by Rodin and Bourdelle, was highly acclaimed. He returned to Greece in 1940; in 1959, he taught drawing at the Athens Technological Institute, and in 1961, he was unanimously elected Professor of Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he taught until 1969.
He was honored with distinctions by both the Greek and French states. In 1967, he was elected a corresponding member of the Sculpture Department of the French Academy of Fine Arts.
He exhibited regularly at the three annual Paris Salons from 1920 to 1939 (Salon d’Automne, Salon des Indépendants, and Salon des Tuileries), as well as in Panhellenic exhibitions in Athens. He also participated in the Venice Biennale (1950) and the Alexandria Biennale (1961).