The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation was established by Effie Michelis in 1979. The Foundation is a legal entity of private law administered by a five-member Board of Directors. The Foundation’s mandate is to study and promote aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Panayotis Michelis was an architect, mostly a theoretician of architecture. Effie Michelis was a naive painter and founding member of the Fédération Internationale Culturelle Féminine. An intellectual couple, both members of the renowned Generation of the Thirties, sharing a vision.
On Friday, 27 September 2019, visitors of the The Hellenic Centre had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion organized by the board of directors
The Board of Directors of the Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation is pleased to invite you to a discussion about its newly published book Greece in
The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation Library of Aesthetics specialises in aesthetics, architecture, the fine arts, the philosophy of art, and philosophy in general. The provenance of the core holdings is the personal collection of Panayotis Α. Michelis and his wife, Effie.
The donation of a valuable book collection on philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of art by the British professor of philosophy Richard Woodfield, first vice president of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA), has contributed to the internationally recognised importance of the Foundation’s Library of Aesthetics. The Richard Woodfield Collection is a distinct division of the Library, comprising 1,000 items and counting.
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