Arshak Fetvachyan
Arshak Fetvachyan (1863 -1947 Trabzon, New York)
Primary education in the art school of the city of Constantinople (Istanbul), then in 1887 he graduated from the College of the Arts of Constantinople under the leadership of El Salvador Vallery, later - the Rome Academy of Arts Sv.Luki.
Fetvachyan lived and worked in Tbilisi, Europe, USA and Armenia.
In 1919 he became a designer of banknotes (with 50, 100, 250 rubles), issued in 1920 by the Government of the First Republic of Armenia.
Basically Fetvachyan known for his cycle of works on which he depicted the cultural and historical monuments of Western Armenia. At the beginning of XX century, the artist with the expedition of Nicholas Marr visited the ruins of Ani and imprinted architectural monuments of historical Armenia. In addition, a significant part of the heritage Fetvachyana up work, depicting Armenian women in the national costumes of various regions of the country, a series of paintings devoted to Venice.
Последний раз редактировалось Nara; 01.04.2010 в 20:40.
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