Memos Makris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Memos Makris

Hungarian sculptor

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1913

Place of Birth: Patras, West Greece Region, Greece

Date of Death: 26-May-1993

Profession: sculptor

Nationality: Hungary, Greece

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Memos Makris (Greek: ??µ?? ?a????, Hungarian: Makrisz Agamemnon) (born April 1, 1913 in Patras – died May 26, 1993 in Athens) was a prominent Greek sculptor.
He spent his early childhood in Patras but his family moved to Athens in 1919.
He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and soon became involved in the artistic and cultural life of the 1930s.
During the German Occupation Makris joined the National Resistance.
After the liberation he continued his studies in Paris.
He was deported from France in 1950 due to his political allegiance to the Left and sought political asylum in Hungary.
In Hungary he became an important figure in the country's political and cultural life.
In 1964 he was deprived of his Greek nationality, which he regained in 1975 after the restoration of democracy in Greece.
In 1979 his first retrospective exhibition in Greece took place in the National Art Gallery.