Akhikyan Vrtanes

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Akhikyan Vrtanes (Galust)
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Armenian: Ախիկյան Վրթանես Գալուստի
Russian: Ахикян Вртанес Галустович
Born: 26.09.1872
Van, Western Armenia
Died: 21.02.1936
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Description:
Painter.

Biography

Was born on September 26, 1872 in Van, Western Armenia.

Education

  • In 1890 entered the College of Arts in Constantinople.
  • 1894-1912 was in the studios of Kovalevsky, Franz Roubaud, Repin.
  • 1899-1912 studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

Work activity

  • 1912-1915 taught at the Central College in Van.
  • 1915-1918 worked at Gayanyan School in Tiflis.
  • 1921-1929 taught at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts.

Works

  • "Old Mosque" (1922).
  • "Mount Ararat. Summer" (1923).
  • "Early peaches" (1925).
  • "Ararat" (1925).
  • "Geghard's view"(sketch) (1927).
  • "Aragats, fields" (1927).
  • "Aragats from Yerevan" (1927).
  • "Aragats, fields" (1927).
  • "The construction of People's House" 1928 (ANP Armenian national platform).
  • "Getar River near Avan Village" (1928).
  • "Avan village. Aragats" (1928).
  • "Cutters of Arzni basalt" (1933).
  • "Grandfather and grandson" (1929).
  • "Beehive" (1929).
  • "Flowers from Arzni" (1935).
  • "The monastery and mount Aragats"(1908).
  • "His wife's, K. Akhikyan's portrait" (1920).
  • "Winter (sketch)" (1926).
  • "The backyard in March" (1926).
  • "Evening. Tsaghkadzor" (1929).
  • "Tsaghkadzor. Church" (1929).
  • "Aragats. Avan village" (1929).
  • "Stone crushing machine of people's house" (1930).
  • "Portrait of a Man" (1930).
  • "Avan village surroundings. Aragats" (1931-1932).
  • "Arzni sanatorium" (1931).
  • "Attack" (1933).
  • "Tsaghkadzor. Church" (1929).
  • "Autumn in Yerevan parks" (1928).
  • "Tree" (1928).

Achievements

  • In 1935 became an Honored Art-figure of ASSR.

Other

  • He is a master of miniature landscapes and still lifes.
  • In 1911 his works were shown in London for the first time in the exhibition of Russian artists
  • He often presented cartoons in the periodicals of Yerevan and designed a number of books.
  • Most of his works are kept in the National Gallery of Armenia.

Images

Vrtanes Akhikyan's collection of paintings

See also