Bouzianis studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1897-1906) with teachers such as Nikephoros Lytras and Konstantinos Volanakis. He continued his studies in Germany, Munich, and Berlin where he was taught by Otto Seitz and Max Liebermann respectively.
Around 1917, Bouzianis' expressionistic idiom began to take on a cleaner shape and soon became a respected artist in Germany. Many of his paintings were bought by the Leipzig Museum. Unfortunately, expressionism was gradually fading away with the rise of Nazism, and many of his paintings were confiscated from the Leipzig Museum by the Nazis in 1937 because of the "degenerate art" purge.
Bouzianis returned to Greece in 1934. To his disappointment, he failed to take a position in the Athens School of Fine Arts and was treated with hostility by the Athenian art circle who were completely unprepared for the sophistication of Boizianis' expressionistic style and started to appreciate his oeuvre only after his exhibition at Parnassos Galery in 1949. In the meantime, Bozianis's artistic quest in isolation produced his most significant works.
Still life and landscape but above all portraiture and human figures made the main thematic axes of his paintings.
In "Portrait of a Seated Man" (1947) for instance the treatment of the subject was remains conventional, despite that the colours and brush strokes were relatively free according to the expressionistic model of the decade.
In "Portrait of Painter Waldmulher", 1923, we have the intense appearance of details of form, which with the passing of time will become the personal trademark of the artist, the intensity of brushwork and the violent relationship between the risk and the theme of the painting.
This becomes crystal clear in a "Female Figure" (1939) where the woman portrayed functioning as a pretext since the main work of the artist is to be found in the spiritual relationtionship with the surface and the means of his expression.
Among other exhibitions and fairs, Bouzianis represented Greece at the Venice Biennale and received the Greek Prize in the International Guggenheim competition.
His house in Daphne, Athens has been converted into a museum after his death (1959). Today his paintings are exhibited at the National Gallery of Athens, the A. Soutsos Museum, and in many other exhibitions and collections in Greece and abroad.
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