Sedrak Arakeljan
Sedrak Arakeli Arakelyan ( Armenian Սեդրակ Առաքելի Առաքելյան , Russian Седрак Аракелович Аракелян ; born December 17 . Jul / 29. December 1884 . Greg in Dschauk in Nakhchivan in the province Yerevan , † 6. March 1942 in Yerevan ) was an Armenian - Soviet painter .
Life
Arakeljan studied first at the Art College of the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Tbilisi with the painter Yegische Tadewosjan (1904-1908) and then at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with a degree in 1916. His teachers there were SW Ivanov , KA Korowin and AJ Archipow . Arakeljan participated in the exhibitions of the Cooperative of Traveling Artistic Exhibitions , which promoted realism .
In 1920 Arakeljan returned to Armenia and participated in the country's cultural life. In addition to his artistic activity, he worked socially. He founded the Society of Workers of Fine Arts as the first artists' association in the Armenian SSR . After five years she joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia . Arakeljan also taught at the Yerevan Technical Center for Art and Industry . His works can be found in the Armenian National Gallery in Yerevan and in the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery, as well as in other museums.
Honors
- Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1935)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Седрак Аракелович Аракелян (accessed May 10, 2017).
- ↑ Article Arakeljan Sedrak Arakelowitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Армянская энциклопедия фонда "Хайазг": Аракелян Седрак Аракелович (accessed on May 10, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arakeljan, Sedrak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arakeljan, Sedrak Arakeli; Аракелян, Седрак Аракелович (Russian); Առաքելյան Սեդրակ Առաքելի (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian-Soviet painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dschauk at Nakhichevan |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1942 |
| Place of death | Yerevan |