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Apartis [Apartoglou], Thanassis
(b Smyrna [now Izmir], 24 Oct 1899; d Athens, 1 April 1972). Greek sculptor. From 1919 to 1926 he studied in Paris, at the Académie Julian, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. He exhibited at the Salons d’Automne, des Indépendants, des Tuileries and at the Petit Palais. The French state bought a number of his works, and in 1939 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. In 1940 he moved to Athens, and from 1945 to 1956 he shared his time between Athens and Paris. Apartis excelled in sensitive and realistic portraits with emphasis on individual character. He also made some sculptures of animals, reliefs and monuments, including the Monument to the Unknown Sailor at Khíos. His thorough knowledge of ancient and modern art helped him assimilate influences from archaic and Classical Greek art and from medieval French sculpture in a distinctive personal idiom. He was awarded the Order of the Phoenix by the Greek government in 1960.
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