Gohar Fermanyan (1899-1958)

Woman Ironong, 1930

Gohar Fermanyan was a Soviet Armenian Painter, who gained recognition as an painter of Socialist Realist landscapes and still-lifes and portraits.

Gabriel Gyurjyan ( 1892-1987 )

He was born in Turkey in 1892. It was in 1928 when he became a lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty in Yerevan, and in 1947 when he became a professor at the Institute of Fine Art in Yerevan. He was an author of a few articles and books. In the period from 1951 to 1959 and 1968 to 1969 he was a chairman of Artist’s Union of Armenia.

Stepanos Nersisyan (1815-1884)

Stepanos Nersisyan was an Armenian painter who was known as the "Founder of the painting genre" and a famous portrait painter in the Armenian art history. Stepanos Nersisyan was born in Yerevan. He began his education in Tblisi. He graduated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in the middle of the 19th century.

Portrait of General

He created the well-known series of portraits of his contemporaries, well-known figures of Armenian History like the founders of the Armenian alphabet Mesrop Mashtots, Sahak Partev. He also painted many Landscape paintings.

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Kura River

Sources
Armenian Culture in 1800-1917 , Vahe Erkanyan
Literaturna Armeniya , 1989
Armenia: Country and People, Egishe Sargisyan, Konstantin Khudaverdiyan

Sarkis Muradyan ( 1927-2007 )

Sarkis Muradyan was born in Yerevan in 1927. He lived in Yerevan. He was an honoured Art Worker of the Armenia SSR, a winner of the State Prize of the USSR and a painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes.

Egishe Tadevosyan (1870-1936)

Yegishe Tatevosyan was an Armenian painter, whose enormous legacy still influences Armenian artists. He was born in Armenia (1870), then went to Moscow to begin his education. He finished at the gymnasium at the Lazarev Institute, then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, graduating in 1894.

Komitas

 
 He lived in Moscow until 1901, then he moved to Tblisi where he continued painting.At the beginning of his career he was influenced by Vardges Sureinants. However in 1900 he started using Pointillism and expressionism in his paintings.

Panos Terlemezian (1867-1941)

Portrait of lady

Panos Terlemezian was a former fighter and painter, who was born in 1865. He graduated from the local school in Van, where he later taught art, then joined the revolutionary movement against the absolutist regime and was inprisoned. He escaped from prison in 1890s and fled to Tblisi. In 1895 he went to St. Petersburg, Russia and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts.Panos Terlemezian played an important part after 1917 in establishing Soviet Armenian school of painting and founding the first art institute in the Soviet Armenia.

Sources
Armenian Painters in the Ottoman Empire
Armenian Van/Vaspurakan

Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1891-1966)

Portrait of Irina

 Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was one of the greatest Armenian Soviet painters and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961) who lived all his life in Tbilisi.Bazhbeuk-Melikyan's great subject was nude women . Many of his paintings present nude women; others depict exotically dressed women in the role of juggler, acrobat or magician.

Hagop Kodjoyan (1883-1959)

Hagop Kodjoyan was regarded as the greatest artist of oil painting and graphic art and remarkable illustrator who created a new style in the book arts.

The Armenian graphic art of Soviet time owed a considerable debt to Hagop Kodjoyan, was best‐known as a who did many etchings and woodcuts. He had many students and followers ( Garibyan, Brutyan, Khachvankyan, and later Aivazyan, an etcher and lithographer ) but Kodjoyan was best‐known as a book illustrator.Also he produced a large number of paintings and large panels.

Sources
On the Soviet Armenian Architecture of the Twenties by Lola K. Dolukhani︠a︡n
Armenian Art by Nonna Stepanian

Richard Jeranian ( 1921- )

Lebanon

Richard Jeranian was an Artist, of Armenian Descent, moved from Turkey to Paris in 1930s, where he continued his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.Richard Jeranian gained recognition as an painter of stylized landscapes and still-lifes and abstract drawings in colored ink.

Sedrak Arakelian (1884–1942)

Sedrak Arakelian  ( Arakelovitch ) was a genre painter of landscapes, who was a student of Yegishe Tadevosyan. Later he studied at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow (1916).