Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae of E. Warlamis
Efthimios Warlamis (Makis) was born in Veroia in 1942 and from a very young age he was orphaned by his father. From his mother Rebecca and his grandmother, he got, as he said, the Faith and the value of hard work. He was an excellent student who excelled both in his lessons and his morals, and for his talent in the fine arts.
He studied Architecture in Austria and then taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna until 1981. He settled permanently in Austria and married the ceramist Heidelinde Fleischauer with whom they had a daughter, Daphne.
In 1978 he created a group of his former students, who wanted to continue together. In 1991 he founded the I.DE.A Design Center in the city of Schrems, Austria, which had an international reach, especially in Central Europe. Then in 2010, with the support of the Austrian state, he founded the Art Museum of Austria (Artmuseum Waldviertel), which continues to operate to this day.
He was a multifaceted and versatile artist. In addition to being an architect, he was a painter, sculptor, designer, writer and educator. He loved teaching children.
As an architect since the 1970s, he proclaimed the shift in architecture towards the cultures of the southeastern 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 an anthropocentric architectural direction and in 1993 in N. York presented the idea of therapeutic architecture.
In the field of fine arts, he proposed a shift towards the “world of childhood” defined mainly by preschool children. He passionately defended the rights of children and was inspired by the world of Childhood.
Art for Warlamis was his whole life. Whether he painted, wrote, or drew, he always had great enthusiasm because in this way he tried to communicate with people and always wanted to highlight the poetic element in every form of art as well as in life itself. He considered art one of the most precious goods of man and a means to approach the “inconceivable”.
He was a happy and cheerful man who was inspired by his faith in God and his love for his fellow man.
He passed away in December 2016 in the city of Schrems, Austria, leaving behind a huge artistic work that is managed in Greece by the Experimental Laboratory of Vergina and in Austria by the collaborators of his museum.
His grave is located in his birthplace, Veroia.
what he says himself...
THE LANDMAKER
Warlamis had a global perception of things and he himself described himself as a “Landmaker”.
But what is a “Landmaker”? Let’s watch how he describes him in an excerpt from one of his allegorical texts:
Landmakers are masters of spaces, of vital spaces. They are endowed with a special talent and have a complex training in artistic directions, especially in music and dance, in painting and sculpture and in the very important branch of poetic architecture. To become a landmaker requires great patience, a lot of time and a cheerful heart. A landmaker is also a good dowser, a practiced geomancer, a good economist-manager, who focuses on the interests of the whole in an indescribable dynamic and sets the appropriate goals. If this balance between the individual and the community is understood correctly and applied properly, it results in economic benefits.
This is not complicated. When the individual takes a position that favors the needs and necessities of the whole, then he can be sure that he has every possible protection. Protection and enthusiasm.
However, if one wants to name these expectations, hopes and dreams and transform them into planning, he must always keep himself internally humble, diminish his own special importance and above all renounce all functional and intellectual evaluation. Thus every man, free from these limitations, can speak the language of the heart and carry the spirit of love. And thus he finds direct access to the hearts of the people of the community. Be vigilant and discern wisely between deceptive language and logic. The living knows only one logic. The logic of life is quite simple. It is the logic of mammals. Mammals are not fooled by universities to discover something useful. They stay protectively close to their young and with them they move forward within their territory. Their logic is tactile.
Education, yes education can be an obstacle to the logic of life. Education must protect instincts or, to put it better, intellectual understanding, contribute to the discovery of tolerance and, through continuous searches, place new structures so that it can react to the constant changes in society, in the economy, in the protection of nature and in art.
