Telemachos Kanthos, the Greek Cypriot painter, engraver, teacher, and stage designer was born in the mountain village Alona in 1910 and died on November 18, 1993 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Between 1929 and 1939 (with an interruption during 1932-34) he studied painting at the Department of Fine Arts of the Athens Polytechnic under Spyros Vikatos, Umbertos Argyros, Dimitrios Biskinis, and graphics with Yiannis Kefallinos.