The painter and iconographer Dimitris Litsas, a descendant of a wealthy seafaring family, was born on Spetses in 1881 and passed away in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1952.
He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1901, having apprenticed under Nikephoros Lytras, Georgios Roilos, Konstantinos Volanakis, and others. For two years, he worked alongside the painter Kyriakos Souliotis, creating portraits of wealthy diaspora Greeks and commissioned landscapes in Smyrna, Constantinople, Volos, and Alexandria. Parallel to this, he studied at the Drama School of Athens under teachers Angelos Vlachos and Demetrios Vikelas (1901–1903), and worked as an actor in touring theater companies, traveling with them to Constantinople, Thessaloniki, and Smyrna. In 1912–1913, he participated in the Balkan Wars, capturing scenes of battles and military life, and in 1913, he emigrated to Alexandria, Egypt. There, in 1916, with the help of his wife, he founded an art school where notable figures such as Yiannis Kefallinos, Aristomenis Angelopoulos, Michalis Kiousis, Michalis Vafiadis, and Spyros Mylonakis studied. Between 1930 and 1932, he lived in Paris, where he studied modern art movements that went on to influence his work.
He published sketches and articles regarding painting and art in newspapers and magazines of the era. He painted Egyptian landscapes and people, still lifes, flowers, tree trunks, and icons of saints. In 1948, he painted the hagiography for the Holy Church of Saint Christopher in Rachitio, Egypt.
He held four solo exhibitions in Alexandria (1929, 1937, 1942, 1958) and participated in various group exhibitions.
His works are included in the collection of the National Gallery (Athens), the Cairo Art Gallery, the Municipal Library of Alexandria, and in private collections.