Artist

Konstandinidi Eleni (1910 – 1988)

Biography

The engraver Eleni Konstantinidi was born in 1910 in Athens, where she also passed away in 1988.
She attended the Athens School of Fine Arts (1929–1934), studying painting under Konstantinos Parthenis and engraving under Yannis Kefallinos, two prominent masters of the time.
In her creative career as a printmaker, she dedicated herself primarily to woodcutting, emerging as one of the most daring and pioneering Greek female engravers of the interwar period. She was an active member of artistic groups, including the “Free Artists” Union. After World War II, she turned her focus more toward painting, gradually abandoning printmaking. Her early works display strong expressionist elements, featuring dynamic formalizations and distortions, particularly in her woodcuts. From the 1960s onward, her visual language shifted toward more abstract directions.

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