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Vaso Katraki

Born in Aitoliko, Aetolia-Acarnania, she studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1936–1940), painting under Konstantinos Parthenis and printmaking under Yannis Kefallinos. During the Nazi Occupation she joined the Resistance and produced woodcuts for clandestine publications. From the mid-1950s she experimented with engraving on stone, transforming her figures into symbols. She won the 1st Engraving Prize at the Alexandria Biennale (1957), was awarded at the Lugano Print Biennale (1958), was elected an honorary member of the Accademia Fiorentina del Arte del Disegno (1965), and received the International Tamarind Lithography Prize at the 33rd Venice Biennale (1966). A year later she was exiled to Gyaros by the Junta. In 1976 she received the 1st prize at Intergrafik in East Berlin, and in 1980 the National Gallery of Greece held a retrospective. She died in Athens in December 1988. The Vaso Katraki Centre of Printmaking and Museum operates in her birthplace, Aitoliko.

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