Harutjun Kalenz

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Harutyun Kalenz ( Armenian Յարութիւն Կալենց (Հարմանտաեան) ; Russian Арутюн Галенц урождённый Хармандаян ; born March 27 . Jul / 9. April  1910 . Greg in Gürün as Harutyun Charmandajan ; † 7. March 1967 in Yerevan ) was an Armenian - Soviet painter .

Life

Harutjun came from a noble family from Ani . His father Tiratur Charmandajan owned a wool dyeing factory . In 1915, during the Armenian genocide , the father was picked up by Turkish soldiers and never seen again. The mother with Harutjun and his three brothers managed to escape to Aleppo . There she died a few days later due to the hardship, and the children were sent to an orphanage. Harutjun showed his artistic interest early on, with one of the orphanage sisters supporting him. He often hung around in Aleppo markets, painting.

Portrait of the actress Chmara in the Armenian National Gallery (stamp of the Armenian Post on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Harutjun Kalenz)

In 1922 Harutjun left the orphanage and began an apprenticeship with a lithographer . From 1923 he received his first artistic training from Onik Avetissjan. He followed his brothers to Tripoli , where they opened a photo studio . Harutjun painted the backgrounds for the photos. 1929–1933 he studied at the Beirut Art Academy with the French painter Claude Michulet. Harutjun then taught painting there himself until 1939. At the 1939 New York World's Fair , he received a Medal of Merit from the Exhibition Presidium and an honorary award from the Lebanese government for his bas-reliefs for the Lebanese pavilion . He had a studio in Beirut and was one of the founders of the Union of Painters in Lebanon.

In 1943 Harutjun married Armine Paronjan in Beirut, whom he had accepted as an apprentice in 1938 and who had become an important painter. They had two sons, Armen and Saro. In 1946 they immigrated to Yerevan . In 1947 he became a member of the Armenian Artists Union, which presented the works of the returning painters in a collective exhibition. In 1949 he was expelled from the Artists' Union as a cosmopolitan formalist . From 1961, Harutjun also exhibited his works in several solo exhibitions in Yerevan and Moscow . His landscape pictures and still lifes were striking because of their bright colors.

Harutjun Kalenz is one of the heroes in Andranik Zarukjan's description of the people without childhood (Մանկութիւն Չունեցող Մարդիկ, 1955) from the orphanage in Aleppo. Also Martiros Saryan lamented the lost childhood of this generation. IG Ehrenburg published an article on Harutjun Kalenz in 1962. Al Gitowitsch dedicated one of his poems to him. In 1996 Armine Kalenz published Memoirs of Harutjun Kalenz.

In 2010, the house of Harutjun and Armine Kalenz in Yerevan became the Kalenz Museum with 200 pictures and more than 200 graphic works as well as archive material. Harutjun Kalenz's paintings are in the Armenian National Gallery and the Yerevan Museum of Modern Art, as well as in many private collections outside Armenia. In 2013 there was a Harutjun Kalenz exhibition in the Yerevan Cafesjian Center for the Arts and in 2016 the exhibition Four Paths of Life. Two artist couples in the Armenian tradition, Mariam Aslamazyan, Nikolai Nikogosyan, Harutyun Kalentz and Armine Kalentz in the gallery of the Kulturhaus in Berlin-Karlshorst .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Modern Art Museum of Yerevan: Kalents Harutyun (accessed April 22, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b Армянская энциклопедия фонда Хайазг: Галенц Арутюн Тиратурович (accessed April 22, 2017).
  3. ↑ Maximillien De Lafayette: Armenian Painters and Art from the Medieval Age and Diaspora to the Present, Vol. 2 . 2011, p. 100 .
  4. ↑ Henrik Igityan: Armenian palette of the 20th century . 2004, p. 136 .
  5. ↑ Сарьян М. С .: Удивительный Галенц: Статьи. Воспоминания . Айастан, Yerevan 1969, p. 3 .
  6. ↑ Harutyun Kalents 100: Exhibition in National Gallery (accessed April 22, 2017).
  7. ↑ Galentz Museum (accessed on 22 April 2017).
  8. ↑ Haroutiun Galentz: Color as Form (accessed April 22, 2017).
  9. ↑ The Kulturhaus Karlshorst invites you to the vernissage (accessed on April 22, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Kalenz, Harutjun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charmandajan, Harutjun (maiden name); Галенц, Арутюн (Russian); Կալենց, Հարություն (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gürün
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1967
Place of death Yerevan