Periklis Byzantios was born in Athens and passed away in 1972.
He began his studies at the Munich Academy (1911) and continued at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Greece in 1917, and during the period 1920–1922, he served as a military painter alongside S. Papaloukas and P. Rodokanakis.
He was a founding member of the ‘Techni Group’ and a co-founder of the ‘Atelier’ Artists’ Club. As early as 1930, he was designing sets for the National Theatre and, until the 1940s, published sketches and cartoons in newspapers. While his work covers all thematic categories, from a certain point onward he turned primarily to landscape painting, capturing the changing and fleeting moments of nature.
His major solo exhibitions were held at ‘Zygos’ (1958, 1964) and the National Gallery (1972), while he also participated in several group exhibitions, such as those of the ‘Techni Group’ (1919, 1920, and 1930), the Venice Biennale (1934), the Exposition Internationale Universelle (Paris 1937), and Panhellenic Art Exhibitions (1938–1965).