Memos Makris

During the German Occupation Makris joined the National Resistance. After the liberation he continued his studies in Paris. He was deported from France in 1950 due to his political allegiance to the Left and sought political asylum in Hungary. In Hungary he became an important figure in the country's political and cultural life. In 1964 he was deprived of his Greek nationality, which he regained in 1975 after the restoration of democracy in Greece. In 1979 his first retrospective exhibition in Greece took place in the National Art Gallery.

Memos Makris studied at Athens School of Fine Arts. Training under Michael Tombros and Konstantinos Dimitriadis is recorded. The recorded working language is Modern Greek. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hungary. Works named in the authority record are Statue of Makarios III, Athens, Athens Polytechnic Uprising Monument, Tzeni Karezi as Pope Joan, Athens, Bust of Lenin, KKE headquarters, Statue of Don Quixote, Katrakeio theater and Memorial to Democratic Army of Greece, Florina. Work by Memos Makris is recorded in the collections of National Glyptotheque and National Gallery Nafplion Annex. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize and Munkácsy Prize.

Some of his monumental sculptures include the one dedicated to the victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, the monument to the Hungarian volunteers of the Spanish Civil War in Budapest, the monument of Liberation in Pécs. Many other of his works adorn squares and buildings all over Hungary. In Greece he is most known for his sculpture of the head of a youngster that is located at the entrance of the NTUA commemorating the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, and in Cyprus for the emblematic statue of archbishop Makarios in the Presidential Palace.