Things To Do in Lesvos

The painter Theophilos Hatzimihail was born in this pink stone house surrounded by olive groves in 1873. Theophilos was better known as an eccentric than as an artist and often walked the streets of Mytilini dressed as Alexander the Great or a Greek God. Lesbos-born art critic and…

Tériade, who was born Stratis Eleftheriades, left Lesvos for Paris in 1915, westernized his name, and established himself as the publisher of the avant-garde art journals Minotaure and Verve. He collected and published works by many of the great artists of the early 20th century.…