Emmanuel Guiragossian
Emmanuel Paul Guiragossian (born November 29, 1954 in Beirut ) is an Armenian-Lebanese painter of expressionism .
Life
Emmanuel Guiragossian was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1954 as the son of the expressionist and court painter to the Jordanian royal house Paul Guiragossian . Because of his special achievement, he received a scholarship at the Dresden University of Fine Arts in 1979 and also studied in Paris and Florence. During his studies in Dresden he established close contacts with Professor Gerhard Kettner , Siegfried Klotz, Juan Leon, AR Penck and the jazz musician and artist Frank Wollny. After receiving his doctorate in 1979, he worked in Düsseldorf, Paris, New York and Beirut. After the death of his father, the artist moved back to his homeland, Beirut, where he founded an art school and the first Modern Art Museum in the Middle East and taught as an art professor at the Beirut Art School. In 2006 he returned to his university city of Dresden and in November 2007 opened his gallery EMMAGOSS in the baroque quarter of Dresden.
Exhibitions
- 1982 Gallery La Bell, Windsor
- 1983 Upstairs Gallery, Toronto
- 1985 Belian Gallery, Detroit
- 1987 Unesco building, Paris
- 1988 Gorky Gallery, New York
- 1990 Gallery Haus Schönblick
- 1991 Hilden art project
- 1993 Art Days of the City of Harzburg
- 2005 Farra Gallery, Beirut
- 2006 Pastoral Care Center at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden
- 2007 EMMAGOSS, Dresden
- 2008 Brand Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands
- 2010 District Court and Regional Court of Düsseldorf on the occasion of moving into the new court building
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Guiragossian, Emmanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guiragossian, Emmanuel Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian-Lebanese painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beirut |