Konstantinos Dimitriadis
Konstantinos, Costas or Constantin Dimitriadis was a Bulgarian-Greek sculptor who won a gold medal at the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics for his sculpture Finnish discus thrower.Biography
He was born in 1881 or in 1879 in Stenimachos in Bulgaria.
He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and then went with a scholarship to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he stayed after his studies. In 1928 or 1930 he became the director of the Athens School of Fine Arts.
He was elected a member of the Academy of Athens in 1936. His works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and Salon d'Automne and the 1936 Venice Biennale. He died in Athens in 1943.Works