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“In my opinion, both in painting as well as in sculpture, it is only the drawing that counts. You have to focus on drawing alone. If you master drawing, everything else is possible.” – Alberto Giacometti

Avramidis is undoubtedly considered one of the most important Austrian artists of the 20th century. He was born in 1922 in Batumi on the border of Turkey in the USSR the son of Greek immigrants. In 1943, Avramidis moved to Austria, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945- 49 and sculpture with Fritz Wotruba and Robin Christian Andersen from 1953-56. After graduating …