Ara Haroutjounjan

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Ara Haroutjounjan
Rafajel Israjeljan and Ara Haroutjounjan (right)

Ara Haroutjounjan ( Armenian Արա Հարությունյան , Russian Ара Арутюнян ; born March 28, 1928 in Yerevan ; † February 28, 1999 ibid) was an Armenian - Soviet sculptor .

Life

Haroutjounjan was the son of a double bass player and chorister of the State Opera Theater in Yerevan. In his youth he was interested in painting and especially in the works of Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Wrubels . He came to sculpture playfully. After attending school for seven years, he began studying at the painting faculty of the art college, before moving to the sculpture faculty after two years. In 1948 two of his works were presented in an exhibition in the foyer of the Yerevan Spendiarjan Theater. Then he studied at the Yerevan State Art Theater Institute, which he left in 1954 with distinction. His thesis was a Komitas -Bronze statue that was later placed on Komita's grave.

Haroutjounjan’s early works included portraits of an old man and a girl (1957), a Belinsky monument (1959) in front of the Yerevan Belinsky School, a stele for the heroes of the liberation of Sangesur (1960) and tombstones for the artist J. Tatewosjan (1961) and the doctor S. Sogomonjan (1962). The lioness (1957) at the gate of Geghard Monastery became the trademark of the Armenian Cognacs Great Valley . He created the obelisk for those who died in Sevastopol's liberation of the 89th Armenian Taman Rifle Division (1961) in Sevastopol, together with the architect D. Torossyan.

One of the most famous works by Haroutjounjan is the Sayat Nova Fountain with the Head of an Aşık (1963) in Yerevan. Together with Israjeljan, Haroutjounjan created the stele of the victims of the Armenian Genocide (1965) on Gajagortsneri Street in Yerevan. In Yerevan Victory Park was founded in 1967 on the base of 1950 started by Israjeljan Stalin monument from which Sergei Merkurows Haroutjounjans had been removed Stalin statue in 1962, Mother Armenia established. In the applied Israjeljan of 1968 memorial complex for the battle of Sardarapat in Armavir were sculptures of Haroutjounjan, Arsham Schahinjan and Sambel Manasjan created. In 1972 the Sundukjan Memorial was erected at the Sundukjan Theater in Yerevan. In 1976, together with Israjeljan, Haroutjounjan designed the Musa Dağı monument in Musaler near Armavir. In 1988 Haroutjounjan created the Komitas monument in the park of the Yerevan State Conservatory .

Haroutjounjan was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR and a professor.

Honors

Works

  • Sayat Nova Fountain, Yerevan

  • Stele of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide, Gajagortsneri Street, Yerevan

  • Mother Armenia, Yerevan

  • Sardarapat memorial complex near Armavir

  • Sundukjan Monument, Sundukjan Theater, Yerevan

  • Musa Dağı monument, musaler at Armavir

  • Komitas Monument, Park of the Yerevan State Conservatory

Web links

Commons : Ara Haroutjounjan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ARA HARUTYUNYAN ARMENI / ԱՐԱ ՀԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՅԱՆ ԱՐՄԵՆԻ (accessed March 5, 2018).
  2. ↑ Архитектурно-скульптурные комплексы (accessed March 5, 2018).
  3. ↑ Вечер памяти выдающегося скульптора-монументалиста, народного художника Армении Ара Арутюняна. К 85-летию со дня рождения (accessed March 5, 2018).
  4. ↑ Парк "Победа" или "Монумент": живая история (accessed on March 5, 2018).
  5. ^ Sardarapat Memorial (accessed March 5, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Haroutjounjan, Ara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Արա Հարությունյան (hyS); Арутюнян, Ара (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1999
Place of death Yerevan