The painter and engraver Efthymios Papadimitriou was born in 1895 in Athens, where he also passed away in 1958.
He studied natural sciences at the University of Athens and was taught drawing by the painters E. Kontiadis and V. Chatzis. From 1922 to 1929, he attended classes at open academies in Paris, while simultaneously visiting major European museums. He studied Byzantine art in prominent centers such as Constantinople, Mount Athos, and Mystras, and the themes he drew from these visits compose a significant body of work within his overall printmaking oeuvre.
Wood engraving on end-grain and side-grain wood remained the primary medium of his artistic expression. His style, fundamentally realistic, also contains elements of modernism, which are, however, imbued with a Helleno-centric approach. He engaged in sketching, caricature, and book illustration.
In 1958, he was appointed professor of printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts, though he only managed to teach there for a few months before his passing.
He presented his work in solo exhibitions [Alexandria (1927), Cairo (1928), Athens (1950)], as well as in group exhibitions [the Techni (Art) group (1930, 1931, 1936, 1937), the Venice Biennale (1934, 1940, 1960), the XVI European Printmaking Exhibition in Košice, Czechoslovakia (1936), the Panhellenic Exhibitions (1938–1952), the International Print Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (1954), and others].