King Constantine, 1916

Dimitrios Biskinis had a multi-faceted personality and an ascetic character, with a questing spirituality. He expressed himself through an oeuvre of varied subject-matter, which includes religious genre painting scenes, pleasant still lifes - mostly with flowers - and portraits, but also Dionysiac, allegorical scenes in the spirit of a symbolist daimonism, as that found expression in late nineteenth-century Germany. In spite of the fact that the artist continued his studies in Paris - after his time as a student at the School of Fine Arts and the end of the Balkan Wars - he remained an admirer of Nikolaos Ghyzis and the idealistic Romantic painting of Jugendstil, influences which can also be seen in his graphic art work with his line of a classic purity.