Grammatopoulos Kostas was born in Athens, in 1916. He studied painting and engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts with professor G. Kefallinos and he was awarded a scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Paris.
Grammatopoulos Kostas was born in Athens, in 1916. He studied painting and engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts with professor G. Kefallinos and he was awarded a scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Paris. In 1959, he returned to Greece and he was elected a professor at the ASFA engraving studio, where he taught until 1985. In 1949, his spelling book “The good children” won the 1st Prize in an international school-book competition among 44 countries, in Laeken, Belgium. A painter and engraver of the Aegean Sea, he was also the designer of many posters in the Greek-Italian War, in 1940, the Republic’s Ensign, in 1974 and the famous “Alphabet Book”, in 1949 (reissued dozens of times since then).
