In February 2017 the Culture society of Greece mourned a heavy loss when painter Dimitris Mytaras died at the age of 83. The art world has lost a dignified and humble artist, one of the few who has produced such a prolific body of work. But who was Mytaras and what earned him the respect and veneration of a nation?
Dimitris Mytaras was born in 1934 in Chalcis on the island of Euboea. He lost his mother in his early childhood and live his early years with his barber father and stepmother in impoverished wartime conditions. Ηe later described that period as a “scar deeply etched on my soul”. They were the years of obscurity, the 1940’s, when young Dimitris developed his passion and talent for painting; “the wall of the house is the first canvas that a child has at his disposal to paint” as he characteristically stated many years later.
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