Lilit Teryan

Lilit Teryan (2007)

Lilit Teryan (born December 31, 1930 in Tehran ; † March 7, 2019 there ) was an Iranian sculptor and university teacher . She was called the "mother of modern Iranian sculpture".

life and work

Teryan was the daughter of Armenian parents; her mother had been trained as an artist in France and her father worked for the Bank of Tehran. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and earned a Bachelor of Arts. She then completed an art education in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , where she received the equivalent of a doctorate from the School of Fine Arts. In 1961 she returned to Tehran and began teaching at the Faculty of Decorative Arts. She introduced modern sculpture to the academic centers in Iran and established the sculpture department in the faculty. After the revolution, teaching sculpture became illegal and she had to continue teaching in secret. From 1978 to 1992 she taught design and sculpture at Islamic Azad University. In 2008 she started teaching sculpture at Azad Islamic University again . She taught in various academic centers in Iran for 30 years. The statue of the Armenian linguist, composer and theologian of the early Middle Ages and founder of the Armenian alphabet, Mesrop Mashtots , is one of her standout works. She also created a bust of an Iranian-Armenian revolutionary leader and a leading figure in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, Yeprem Khan , located in St. Mary Church in Tehran. In 2007 she honored the Museum of Religious Arts Imam Ali in Tehran for her lifetime achievements and she took part in the sixth urban sculpture biennial .

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SURNAME	Teryan, Lilit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teryan, Liliet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Iranian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tehran
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 2019
Place of death	Tehran