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Yeghia Arthur (Harutiun) Beglyarovich
artist 05.04.1917 - 02.01.2006
BiografiyaHudozhnik - landscape Harutiun (Arthur) Beglyarovich Yeghia born fifth in April 1917 in the city of Andijan, the Turkestan Military District. Predisposition to art passed to him from his mother, Tatiana Balasanovny Tonunts, who loved to draw. Mother Father Harutyun Yeghia, Samson Shakaryan, tragically died, and his mother married a second time to a man's name is Armen wore until the end of his life in gratitude for the fact that he reared him like a son.
In search of a better life, the family moved from Central Asia to Azerbaijan city of Baku. Here Harutiun took a great interest in painting a picture, has been actively attend classes in art studio, sketching a lot from life. After years of study at the Baku School of Arts. But in 1941 started the Second World War and a young artist called to the front. A cavalryman. Then, wounded and captured. Harutyun placed in a concentration camp "Scream - Chausy" - near Mogilev (Belarus) from which he escaped. As part of the reconnaissance in the Resistance, whose task was raised by the revolt in the rear of the Nazis. According to documents in the name of "Kirishenya" began working as an artist in the Belarusian city of Baranovichi, where it is known as "Pan Czarny. Before the advent of Soviet troops is one of the members of the resistance under pain of death of their loved ones gave the whole cell. An employee of German commandant was a great lover of painting, Harutyun offered a choice to dig his own grave, and be shot or to go to Germany as "Ostarbeiter, remembering the promise of the mother, to return alive, he chose the latter. In Germany, noted the ability of the young artist. He became a painter decorator in Shtudgardskom Opera and even sent to study at the Art Academy in Vienna, but as soon as an opportunity to return to the Soviet Union, he arrived home.
He became a student of the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts. Denounced by a fellow student in 1949 was subjected to repression, and got "25 years" incommunicado in the gulag. In 1956, a fully rehabilitated, and eventually restored and awards.
Subsequent decades have been the happiest of his life. Major design works in Baku, creative exhibition in the salons of Moscow, Riga, Baku and other cities. Among his works: "Akhtamar", "Venice", "Old Church", "Karabakh", "Rural landscape", "Buzovna", "Kuban village", "Mountains" and others.
In the period of national obscurantism in Baku in 1989, aged seventy years, the artist had been persecuted because of their nationality. He was forced, as a refugee to emigrate to the U.S. - the city of Salt - Lake City. Here in the pension for the elderly, while continuing to paint, he lived the last years of his life. [1Skonchalsya January 2, 2006 and was buried in g.Solt - Lake City (Utah)
(Biography and images provided by Vadim Egiyanom) 1-Karabakh, 2 mountains and sky.