Makis Efthimios Warlamis 

Architect, Painter, Sculptor, Designer, Writer and Educator

“ART FOR ALL”  That was Warlamis’ favorite slogan, which is why he worked intensively his entire life to create a broad range of art products that make our lives beautiful and really “speak” to our hearts and minds.

Since 1982 he has realised major international personal exhibitions in museums and exhibition centres around the world in Europe, the USA, Asia and Egypt.

Warlamis' painterly oeuvre includes numerous large picture cycles, of which the cycle “Christus Heute ” stands out in particular. His works are represented in international public and private collections, including the Graphische Sammlung der Albertina, Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt, Sammlung Alexander Jolas, Sammlung des Landes NÖ, Sammlung Liaunig, etc.

Warlamis has received international and national honours and awards for his multifaceted work, including:

2009 the Golden Decoration of Honour for Services to the Province of Lower Austria and

the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art in 2010.

He was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow and honorary professor at the Universitatea de Arta si Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

„To learn the alphabet of art, the symbolism of colors, dark colors, brown, are earthy, they refer to the earth, red is intensity, you cannot feel this with your logic, you have to feel it. Birds react to colors, they don't go to university to learn where the nectar is. So are plants that give off scent to attract the bird for pollination. The blue is the ether, the spirit, the yellow the sun, the light. The role of art, of painting, is to "soften" man in order to have a better relationship with life. Painting is an act of the soul. When I paint, I don't know what I'm doing. I let myself go and everything comes…“

Warlamis studied Architecture in Vienna and was active in the radical Viennese architectural avant-garde of the 1970s with exhibitions and experimental architecture projects. He evolved into a global creator, a renaissance "Homo universalis" who, as Prof. Dr. Volker Fischer, (art historian, associate of the German Museum of Architecture and the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt), we have long considered it a extinct species.

Through his close collaboration with Professor Karl Schwanzer (Josef Hofmann's assistant) and Professor Norbert Schlesinger, Varlamis is among the direct successors of the "Wiener Werkstätte" tradition, which he revived and continued with his holistic way of working.

Among his important architectural works stand out: His prize-winning work for the Hamburg Musikhalle, the Church of the Annunciation in Waidhofen / Thaya, K. Austria (2004), the Waldviertel Art Museum with the Sculpture Park (2009) and the unique concept of the design of a Crypt for the Apostle Paul.

With the support of the European Union in 1995, Santorini was declared a World Model of Ecological Architecture.

The "House with the Clouds" in Veria, Greece his old family house that he rebuilt in 1979, was a rejuvenating architectural intervention in the urban fabric of a provincial town.

As an architect since the 70's he has proclaimed the shift of architecture to the cultures of the south-eastern Mediterranean (Sicily, the Near East, the Aegean Sea, North Africa) which are particularly defined by the elements of the Troglodyte culture. He always insisted on a human-centered architectural direction and in 1993 in New York he presented the idea of therapeutic architecture.