The painter Vrasidas Tsouchlos, originally from Leonidio, Arcadia, was born in 1904 in Athens, where he also passed away in 1981.
He graduated from the Varvakeio High School. He studied at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, but left it in 1921 to pursue art studies in Paris: at Lucien Simon’s painting and drawing studio at the Académie Grande Chaumière, Bernard Naudin’s drawing studio at the Académie Colarossi, Antoine Bourdelle’s sculpture studio at the École de dessin de la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, and Paul Albert Baudoüin’s fresco studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. He also studied Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Sorbonne.
Upon returning to Greece, he co-founded the art groups “Painters and Sculptors” (with Thanasis Apartis) and “Stathmi” (with Georgios Bouzianis, Spyros Vassiliou, and others). He served as president of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (1948–1962), and as a member of the organizing and judging committees of the Panhellenic Art Exhibitions, among other committees. He participated with presentations at International Congresses of Aesthetics (Venice 1954, Athens 1960, Amsterdam 1964, Uppsala 1968, Bucharest 1972, Darmstadt 1976), the International Association of Plastic Arts (Venice 1954, Dubrovnik 1957, Vienna 1960, New York 1963), and others, and published numerous articles and essays on art.
He held solo exhibitions in Athens (Stratigopoulou Gallery 1929, 1937, 1979). He also participated in group exhibitions in Greece (Panhellenic Exhibitions in 1938—where he received an award—1939, 1948, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1963; exhibitions of the “Techni” group in 1936, 1937, 1940; exhibitions of the “Painters and Sculptors” group in 1950, 1954), Paris (exhibitions of the Association of Greek Artists and Writers of Paris 1926–1928, Salon des Indépendants 1928, Salon des Tuileries 1926–1929), and elsewhere (Venice Biennale 1936, Alexandria Biennale 1958, Cairo, Stockholm, Brussels).