The painter Georgios Mavroidis was born in Piraeus in 1912 and passed away in Athens in 2003.
He studied law and political sciences, and in 1946, he was appointed to the diplomatic corps, from which he resigned in 1959. That same year, he was elected professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and in 1977, he was elected the School’s first rector.
He began painting systematically after the end of World War II, utilizing oil, tempera, and encaustic. Between 1950 and 1952, he was stationed in Paris as a diplomat, where he had the opportunity to study contemporary art movements. His subject matter includes landscapes, nudes, and portraits. He used intense and thick color with an evident, dynamic expressionist technique.
He presented his works at the 1st Panhellenic Exhibition at the Zappeion in 1948, at the “Iolas” Gallery in New York in 1956, at the “Zygos” Gallery the same year, and at the “Zoumboulakis” Gallery in 1960, 1961, and 1975. He participated in numerous exhibitions abroad (São Paulo Biennale 1955 and 1975; Alexandria Biennale 1962; Venice Biennale 1966). In 1986, the National Gallery dedicated a retrospective exhibition to his work.