Joannis Avramidis

Joannis Avramidis (23 September 1922 – 16 January 2016) (Greek: Iωάννης Aβραμίδης) was a Greek-Austrian sculptor. He was born in Batumi, Georgia in 1922 to a family of Caucasus Greek origin.
He studied in Batumi and later at Fritz Wotruba in Vienna. He became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1966 in Hamburg. In 1962 he represented Austria at the Venice Biennale.

• 1956: State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
• 1958: Austrian promotion prize for sculpture
• 1961: Award from the City of Vienna
• 1961: Hugo von Montfort-prize (Bregenz)
• 1964: City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts
• 1968: Will Grohmann-Prize (Berlin)
• 1973: Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Arts
• 1985: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

• "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 726. Retrieved 13 February 2013.