Konstantinos Parthenis

Born in Alexandria, part of the Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with traditional themes, like the figure of Christ, in his art.

Konstantinos Parthenis was born to an Italian mother and a Greek father in Alexandria.

Parthenis belonged to the artistic group "Humanitas" that was founded in 1897 by Diefenbach on the "Himmelhof" in Ober Sankt Veit, and became the nucleus of the early alternative movement or life reform.

After his studies in Vienna, he moved to Paris in 1903, and then he lived in Greece, where he worked as an icon painter.

After his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1938, the Italian government acquired one of his works.