Christoforos Savva (1924 - 1968) Artist.

Born in Marathovouno, Cyprus 1924. Studied art in London at St. Mantin’s School of Art and Heatherley’s School of Art (1947-1953) and in Paris at the Andre Lhote Academy (1956-1959). In Cyprus developed extensive artistic and cultural activities. In 1955 founded the “Art-Lovers’ Society” and in 1960 together with Glyn Hughes the Apophasis Gallery, which developed into the first cultural center of the newly-founded Cypriot Republic. Died in Sheffield in 1968. 

Has presented his work in one-man exhibitions. 

1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964    Nicosia Ledra Palace Hotel   

1956    Nicosia “Art-Lovers” Society   

1958    Limassol Municipal Palace and Famagusta Cyprus Gallery   

1961, 1962, 1963    Nicosia Apophasis Gallery   

1962    Beirunt and Paphos Municipal Hall   

1965    Nicosia Municipal Hall   

1967    Nicosia, Hilton Gallery   

1968    Nicosia Goethe Institute   

Eight posthumous exhibitions were organized of which two by the cultural services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Christophoros Savva Foundation 1988 and 1993 and one on 2002 by Kypriaki Gonia Gallery and the Christoforos Savva Foundation. 

Also took part in many group exhibitions: in Cyprus and abroad: Paris, Beirunt, Greece, Venice Biennale 1968, etc.

Source: Kypriaki Gonia