ABSTRACT
In 1908, having graduated as an engineer, he went to Munich, a major art center at the time, to study applied art and sculpture. Within a year, however, after viewing three paintings by Cezanne, he quit Munich for Paris. There he studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In Paris, among the painters he met was, once more, de Chirico. Pikionis was the first person to see his metaphysical paintings and to hear his theory about the cyclical nature of time, a mixture of Heraclitus and Nietzsche. This brief encounter might have been significant for his future work. A short time later, Pikionis underwent a crisis and decided to become an architect. He enrolled in the Ecole des BeauxArts. He returned to Greece in 1912, after serving in the army during the Balkan Wars, in 1921 he began his involvement with the Polytechnic of Athens, first as an assistant and, in 1933, as a Full Professor.
