Memos Makris

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.

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 Greece he is most known for his sculpture of the head of a youngster that is located at the entrance of the NTUA commemorating the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, and in Cyprus for the emblematic statue of archbishop Makarios in the Presidential Palace.