A. Tassos

Tassos A., the artistic pseudonym of Anastasios Alevizos (Lefkochora, Messenia, 1914 – Athens, 1985), was a distinguished Greek engraver and resistance fighter. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the Athens School of Fine Arts. From 1933 until his graduation in 1939, he attended engraving classes in the workshop of Giannis Kefallinos. During the Occupation, he joined EPON and the EAM Artists' branch, creating propaganda material against the occupiers. In 1948, he began collaborating with the Organization for the Publication of School Books (OESB, later OEDB), illustrating many textbooks for elementary and middle schools. An acclaimed and exceptionally prolific engraver in the following decades, he exhibited his work numerous times in solo and group exhibitions and illustrated many publications. After his death in 1987, the National Gallery honored him with a major retrospective exhibition. Simultaneously, the "A. Tassos" Visual Arts Society was established with the aim of promoting his work and supporting Greek engraving.