Honored Artist of Armenian SSR (1935)
Born September 24, 1870 in Vagarshapat (now - Echmiadzin)
Graduated in 1885 - Lazarevskoe Seminary, 1894 - Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. 1894-1901 - lived and worked in Moscow.
In 1896 - participated in the 24-th exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions ("Wanderers").
In 1898 - for the film "Duel" and "sermon" was awarded two prizes.
In 1898-1914 - together with VD Polenov going to Palestine, and after that every year visit the Middle East and Europe.
In 1901 - he taught at Tiflis business college and school of painting and sculpture.
Participated in the exhibitions "World of Art and Artists Union of Russia.
In 1916 - organized by the Union of Artists of Armenia and headed it.
Died Jan. 22, 1936 in Tbilisi.
Exhibitions
1904, 1907, 1909
1910 - personal exhibition in Tbilisi.
1910, 1911, 1913 - Union of Russian Artists in Moscow.
1919, 1920 - Artists' Union of Armenians in Tiflis.
1939 - The Fine Art of the Armenian SSR in Moscow.
His work is available at the State Art Museum of Georgia, the State Gallery of Armenia, the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow), as well as in private collections.
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House on Anastasievskoy
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Tiflis, Anastasievskaya, 11. Three small rooms, small kitchen and an open balcony on the third floor of the house in the European part of the city. Here at the beginning of the twentieth century, in 1901, settled Egishe Martirosovich Tatevosyan with his wife Justine.
Easel, paints, brushes, and in particular painting, in many hung on the walls, everything pointed to the fact that the apartment living artist. Pictures have been many, too much, but among them there were almost no works very Tatevosyan, more and more of friends and gifts. Most of the paintings even then might have caused the envy of many museums, not to mention the collectors. Only a list of names sounds sweet music: Ivan Aivazovsky and Mikhail Vrubel, Konstantin Korovin and Isaac Levitan, Alexander Yavlensky and Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Helen and Vasily Polenov. Several portraits of the master himself, among whom the work of Golovin and Verkhoturov. Many photographs, portraits of parents, uncles - Archbishop Nerses Khudaverdiyev-on, the types of homes - Vagarshapat and its environs.
At the time of the move to Tiflis in Tatevosyan was already rich biography. By his thirties he had managed to graduate from high school in the Lazarev Institute in Moscow, then the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and make big trip to Europe, Syria and Palestine and, most importantly, to gain prestige among artists and connoisseurs of art. Sam Savva Morozov, a famous philanthropist and collector, bought two of his paintings for his collection. It would seem, is the time to develop so successfully evolving career, and now this sudden and somewhat strange move to Tiflis, a city with which it did not bind. True, he has lived here for two years when a boy of nine he was sent to private boarding Ter-Akopov, but the city ontogdaneuznal, friends do not got, and very little in common might be a veteran artist with the greenhorn boarders. Looking ahead, I will say that he did not fit into the disorganized and loose style of Tiflis life. Not inspired him and exotic beauty - is worth at least the fact that such a fine landscape painter for 35 years in Tiflis, in addition to several studies, have not written a single urban landscape. And in the last years of his life he did was close to moving to Yerevan, where he asked to be buried themselves.
After a busy Moscow he must have been terribly sad and lonely in Tiflis. There, in Moscow, he was at the epicenter of artistic life in the midst of events, there were friends and beloved teacher, Vasily Polenov, who he and his father and his nurse, in whose house he spent memorable years, there came across his first and only love . Tiflis same, although considered the cultural center of the Trans-Caucasus Region, in many ways still lagged behind the capital. Artistic traditions in the second kind only to the birth process, and he was to become one of their osnovopolozhnikov.Rutinnaya work in the Commercial School of Painting, where he joined a teacher of his burden. In a letter addressed to Polenov, he was annoyed at the fact that too much time has to be given teaching to the detriment of their own creativity. However, there was nothing left - to earn a living selling paintings to the then Tiflis was no easy task. For this it was necessary to compromise, to appease the tastes of the audience - and thus change themselves. It was at this time, he wrote, probably the most bitter and suffered his painting "The Genius and the crowd" - a kind of response to the townsfolk. Is not easy to establish ties with colleagues artists. Not vsyakomuuda-valos discern what kind of feigned indifference and tightly buttoned frock-coat hiding friendly, sociable and good-natured man. In such circumstances, become a real holiday visits with friends, such as V. Surenyants or Komitas, the friendship with which he carried through life.
Vartkes Surenyants, brilliant artist and gifted man, a translator of Shakespeare and Goethe in the Armenian language, had an enormous influence in shaping the worldview Tatevosyan. It was he who instilled Yeghisheh love to Armenian history, folk art and folklore. The early period of creativity Tatevosyan can and do consider as an imitation SURENIANTS. Yeghishe always maintained a respectful attitude towards older friend, as if acknowledging his prevoshodstvo.Inoe case Komitas - with him they were on equal footing. Almost the same age, had met during one of his visits Yeghisheh vacation home in Echmiadzin, they immediately reached out to each other, too much was common interests. Komitas was dedicated to him some of his works, and Yeghisheh in turn a large painting on the banks Komitas Edjmiatsin pond ", illustrated oblozhkusbornika music. When the result of the conflict with the conservative church groups Komitas moved to Constantinople, Tatevosyan upset by separation and subsequent mental illness other. Several times he was able to see Komitas clinic near Paris. By way of Komitas, he returned repeatedly throughout his creative life, and even his last work was, remains incomplete, another portrait of a friend.
Another safety-valve had been traveling abroad. Since the first trip Egishe made it a rule to make annual voyages, which spent all their savings. Featuring relentless curiosity, he traveled all over Western Europe, thoroughly inspecting the museums and exhibitions, taking pictures and jotting down the impressions in numerous plump notebooks. Of course, everywhere he brought lots of sketches. And just started the First World War, and then the revolution put an end to these visits. Held in 1934 in Yerevan show sketches Tatevosyan struck its geographical scope and looked like a travel guide, which reflected all routes artist Armenia and Georgia, Brittany and Normandy, biblical types of Syria and Palestine, Venetian canals and the coast of Corsica, the neighborhood Tarusa and mountain slopes of the Swiss Eglya. Also, he became addicted to photos, and stereo cameras became a constant companion in his travels. He worked it seriously, has carved out a niche in the kitchen, where the long winter evenings poring over their plates, reviving impressions of travel. Preserved photoarchive Tatevosyan more than a thousand pictures (some of them are really unique), which still awaits its izdatelya.Traditsionno each trip ended with arrival date in Bechovo to Polenov, where they are with Justine was always happy all the large family. These meetings gave him the cheerfulness of the whole year ahead. And in between the meetings were the letters, which was discussed in minute detail everything from children's health and the weather to artistic ideas, compositions, and even making the future of color pictures. Mentally, he has always stayed with Polenov, had with him an ongoing dialogue. That's just probably not very happy with this was a postman, who had a day to climb the steep stairs to the third floor with a thick stack of pisem.Egishe incredibly liked the spiritual and creative atmosphere polenovskogo home, he tried to recreate it at home in Tbilisi, and in the end all, it emuuda-moose. Gradually, a circle was formed, which included Russian artists Sklifosovsky Nikolai and Boris Fogel, familiar even to Moscow Evgeny Lancere and Joseph Charlemagne, Armenians - Gigo Sharbabchyan, Fanos Terlemezian, Amayak Akopyan, Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian artists and Jacob Nikoladze. We can only guess what the hot stretching to infinity, the disputes were in that room, when going to noisy group of different, but possessed a passion for people. Apartment Tatevosyan became a haven for many students master who was always a warm welcome and sensible sovet.Neozhidanno for themselves Tatevosyan was headed "Artists' Union of the Armenians" and if he again plunged into the atmosphere of his youth, when he participated in exhibitions of "Union of Russian Artists and "World of Art". He tumultuous activities as chairman of the Union: the statute has developed and created the logo, has organized several vystavok.Togda same Egishe met and became friends with Mr. Ruben Drampya, future director of the Art Gallery of Armenia, which has become a frequent and welcome guest vdome. Later, listening to the advice Egishe, he bought more than one picture to the gallery in Yerevan. There is migrated, and most of the collection of the Tatevosyan, forming the basis of a wonderful collection of Russian zhivopisi.I here, when it seemed that life begins to build, rapidly became podstupat old. He became increasingly ill, has become increasingly difficult to walk on the sketches, it became increasingly turn to portrait genre. It was during these years he painted portraits of Tumanyan and Hakob Hakobyan, Shirvanzade and one of the best avtoportretov.Zhyustine Romanovna surviving spouse for 20 years, for a long time managed to maintain an atmosphere of bygone years, the apartment, as always, was always open for friends and students Egishe, remaining one of the cultural centers of the city.
Tiflis. Anastasievskaya, 11. Then the street Kiacheli, now named after Akhvlediani. Today nothing reminds of the glorious past of the apartments on the third floor of the house. But, If you will be to pass on the street, do not be too lazy to look into the yard and look at the third floor window, where in the service of pure art has lived a quiet and happy life to the classic Armenian painting Egishe Martirosovich Tatevosyan .....
Aram Babloyan
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