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December 2, 1918 was born in the village Shagrar (now the village Nalbandian, Hoktemberian region, Armenian SSR) in a peasant family
1930 - moved with his parents to live in Yerevan
1937-1940 - studied at the art school at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the All-Russia Academy of Arts in Leningrad
1940-1941 - studied my first year at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the All-Russia Academy of Arts in Leningrad, studies interrupted by the Great Patriotic War

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1940 - began to participate in all-Union, republican and international art exhibitions
1942 - admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.
1944-1947 - studied at the Moscow State Art Institute named after VI Surikov (workshop Matveev)
1946 - awarded II prize for sculptural portrait of Komitas in the competition, announced in connection with the 75 anniversary of the composer's birth
1956 - participated in the XXVIII International Biennale in Venice
1958 - personal exhibition in Moscow, together with VS Alfeevskim, EA Aslamazyan, MA Aslpmazyan, BA Dehterevym
1965 - awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR. Awarded Diploma of MOSH for the best work of (monument Michaela Nalbandian in Yerevan)
1967 - awarded the silver medal for the USSR VDNH sculpture "Maya Plisetskaya".
Awarded III prize for sculpture VI Lenin at the All-Union competition devoted to 100 anniversary of the birth of VI Lenin
1970 - awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR
1976 - awarded the silver medal of the USSR Academy of Arts for sculpture "Worker of the Ararat Valley
1977 - awarded the USSR State Prize for the monument Avetik Isaakyanu in Leninakan and for the sculptural portraits of the writer's contemporaries R. dawn, Professor I. Kitaygorodsky, surgeon V. Zagoryanskoy, People's Artist of the RSFSR S. Martinson.
Awarded the People's Artist of Armenian SSR
1980 - personal exhibition in Yerevan and Moscow.
Personal exhibition in Helsinki, Finland
1981 - personal exhibition in Brussels, Belgium
1982 - conferring of the title People's Artist of the USSR
1988 - personal exhibitions in Moscow and Tbilisi
2000 - elected a member of the Russia Academy of Arts
Artworks NB Nikogosian located in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, National Gallery of Armenia, State Art Museum of the Latvian SSR, the State Art Museum of the Kazakh SSR, the State Art Museum of the Lithuanian SSR, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the State Art Museum of Byelorussia , the Chechen-Ingush republic Museum of Fine Arts, Tatar Republican Museum of Fine Arts and other museums of the USSR.



NICHOLAS Nikoghosyan: 'ART SHOW - THIS IS HOW TO LOVE "

Art of Nicholas Bagratovich Nikogosian, a prominent sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR, Russia full member of the Academy of Arts, State Prize winner - one of the most interesting and important in Russia. He was born in 1918 in the Armenian village Shabrad, but almost all his life lived in Moscow. Student Alexandra Terentyevich Matveeva, he is known for his numerous portraits of the sculptured figures of the Armenian culture and Russia: Evgenia Simonova, Tamara Makarova, Maya Plisetskaya ... His work is justly attributed to a combination of picturesque molding in a compiled form. "I have always adored the Archaic Greek sculpture, and portraying it as an expression of the perennial features of wildlife. In doing so, it remains ever present "- recognizes the artist.

- Do you like the young artists are now working?

- Often - no. They ruined the new art. I think that it must be the result of hard work, but work must be for life. Worse, gallery owners and even buy a bad painting, and art about her something to write, and now - the name is. But, on the other hand, we can work out all my life, but nothing found. As Pablo Picasso said: "They are looking for, but I find it.

- Nicholas Bagratovich young still believe that the daily Studies do not need, do not want to paint ...

- Come on, bring me my album, the mirror lies ...

- When to draw?

- This morning.

- And this?

- Yesterday. And yet pictures of yesterday ...

- You do not have a single day without a pencil and a brush?

- None. This watercolor: in my studio working student, and I at this time draw it ...

- Nicholas Bagratovich, in recent years you are in the painting. Say you dream of stone, as you touch him, rattling?

- Of course. Now I think that to really understand the soul stone, only to force him there. I miss the work, although it was hard. It's no joke to say, had to cut nine hours a day. But I've admitted that the stone - this is my element. Because I was born in Armenia, in the stone country. Each artist must create more and your tongue. It is unacceptable that my sculpture was similar to the work of someone else. After all, we are creating only out of love. And love each his own, different, unique. Art - this is like love. After giving mason what you can do with your hands, very painful. It's like in life: you love a woman caring for her, and then another man comes and takes it.

- But your sculptures that adorn the facade of a government palace in Warsaw and the famous skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, were processed exactly masons ...

- I was working as a conductor! I had twelve apprentices. I always was near and said, where removed, as cut off squarely. Of course, when there is an order for twelve sculptures and his need to perform for two years, the sculptor can not do it all himself. Another thing, when it comes to a single, unique sculpture ...
- Such as granite hard worker in the Ararat valley or a well-known to all Moscow sculpture Khorenatsi?

- Yes. When the sculptor exhibited his work can be seen at once: he did it himself or not. Stone requires enormous mental and physical efforts. You can compare with a woman giving birth. But this does not mean that I am, because of the need to cast the bronze statues of five per year. I can not even imagine it! Many of my famous works, such as a monument to the writer and philosopher Michaela Nalbandian, I created about ten years.

- Maybe this is why he is the favorite of Yerevan ...

- In Armenia there is a wizard, which I respect and endless love. Since my childhood I'm friends with Khachatur Iskandaryanom, it is five years younger than me. Creates a small case-studies, they did not shake his monumental grandeur. Iskandaryan as it hides behind its creation. He observes people's habits and knows how to translate what he saw in the sculpture, to create artistic values. One of his favorite themes - the old Yerevan: he happily sculpts love riding on the trolley, street musicians ... His art nenadumannoe, objective, and folk, but somehow he still has the title People's Artist of Armenia.
The poet Mordvinova is a wonderful poem about water. He writes about the clean, clear water, where every stone is visible, but where there is no greenery and no life. If you are someone you love, do it so that people felt it, do not be dead water.
 Valeria Olyunin

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Meeting pervaya.Dekabr 2008.

I hurried to the meeting in advance in anticipation of the emotions that arise during communication with Varpetom. I expected that kind of paint the artist will transfer me to the distant childhood, which left behind mountains, under the blue sky. Of course, worried. No wonder, with some questions to disturb the famous sculptor and painter, who besides the 90 years. My excitement went into a panic when I typed his phone number to specify the address. In the tube sounded stern voice of the hero of the day: "My house is easy to find, it is similar to the palette. The gate is open, and beware, we have a large fierce dog. My legs began to shake, from childhood I can not stand big dogs.

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How in the villages of the ancient homeland, gate and door wide open. Meet me throws a strange shaggy ball with two mischievous eyes, vaguely resembling a dog. Behind him with a sly smile appears the master, storyteller and magician of the colorful world in the center of Moscow. The joke failed. We laughed like a child loudly as his closest friends, who yesterday sat at a table and talked to each other about everything. Loudest of all sounded sonorous voice Gauguin - the so-called dog.
Above the People's Artist of Armenia and the USSR State Prize of the USSR, a member of the Academy of Arts of Russia, Professor Nicholas Bagratovich Nikoghosyan time has no power. He is slender, smart and impozanten, as dozens of years ago.
He was born in 1918 on 2 December in the heart of the Ararat valley, in the village, surrounded by vineyards, now bearing the name of Mikael Nalbandian. Later the sculptor will create a monument to the poet daring, socio-political activist and freethinker, who long ago became one of the attractions of the capital of Armenia. Leave the formation in Russia, he took with him paint his native countryside. "In Russia, too much gray, - later, he said. - There are artists who can work in a gray color, but I - I can not "...
Varpet recalls how he was walking with her mother on a mountain path to the church. Mother trembling kissed the wooden door of an ancient temple, and he admired the intricate patterns of cross-stones. In 1955 the artist met with the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen first. Children's memories of the artist found a new meaning. Probably not a coincidence that after meeting with the Catholicos, Nicholas Nikoghosyan creates sculpture mother Vazgen First. "He was a builder - with warm recollections of the artist .- Being a highly educated, the Catholicos was easy to communicate." Later Nick Bagratovich created a sculptural portrait of the Catholicos of black granite, which recently donated to the Holy Echmiadzin.
Contemporaries of our hero of the day were Eghishe Charents Martiros Saryan, Aram Khachaturian, Derenik Demirchyan Avetik Isahakyan and other pillars of the Armenian culture of the twentieth century. He made friends with Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya. Korney Chukovsky. Dmitri Shostakovich. With special affection, he speaks Isaakyane, with whom he had a very close and friendly relations. In hometown Varpeta words - Gyumri, stands a monument to the poet. For this work the sculptor Nikoghosyan awarded the State Prize of the USSR.
Day drawing to a close. Warm and cozy to me in this house, next to the artist and his charming wife Eteri, whose image was captured on numerous paintings of the wizard. We sit at a table, tasting Armenian lavash and cheese. In pomegranate wine glasses with Homeland Varpeta. Tost says longtime family friend, collector and art historian Samvel Hovhannisyan. These days he is helping to create the future museum exhibitions of the artist: "God gives Varpetu opportunity to live a long time, to do that we enjoyed fellowship with him and his creativity.

P.S. In his native village varpeta is a monument to the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War. This is his gift to his fellow villagers. 180 sons of a small Armenian village did not return home from that war. Monumental «Pieta» surrounded by 16 rigorous three-meter columns, one of which Stork had woven his nest.
- How it went to the village, look, chairman of the farm is nervous, and then with a sense of guilt explains why - sorry varpet, Stork spoil your work. I promise to immediately remove the nest. - And I yell at him - you can pull down the monument, but the stork did not touch it, - has finished his story Nikolai Nikoghosyan.


About Gauguin not forget
Second meeting

Again, I have varpeta. Came prepared to show the material. In my own way without fear I go through the open gate. The whole yard piled sculptures wizard. Gauguin I already know as a friend wagged his tail and leads to the master. Varpet takes a huge magnifying glass in hand and begins to read carefully. Suddenly:
- Akhchi, why did you change the old. I wrote that I was born in 1912!
- Typing, varpet - I'm laughing - of course, you are young.
- And here add that I had in Moscow two months, she visited her mother Vazgen I, which we affectionately called Vehamayr. Also do not forget to write that the Catholicos at my request, have a beauty - sister of an important monk to marry my brother. Selection for him I did, but the family of immigrants for a long time did not consent to the marriage. And only the Catholicos was able to convince the girl in our family will be happy. So it happened. Thank God. Until now, my brother and his wife are still alive - well, they have three children, numerous grandchildren. Once, Vazgen I said: "Kolya, this year will allow myself to organize a celebration for your birthday. Collect sixteen relatives, and come to me in Echmiadzin.
- And why is sixteen - I am surprised.
- Apparently, he was placed around the table exactly sixteen people - responsible varpet and continues. - He was a fine birthday. My mother was so happy. She is very fond of their children. How then to Yerevan, I ordered to draw a poster on one of the buildings near the cinema "Moskva". After work, I look left a bit of paint. Young was taken so dipped his hand in the paint and left her mark on the wall. After some time, went to Leningrad to study. A mother every day, when she went home to his sister, passing by the wall, kissed the imprint of my palm.
Varpet returns to reading. Then he exclaims:
- Damn repairs, find a poem Isahakian, which the poet dedicated to me. Work on the sculpture of his long, weary poet motionless pose, but when I saw the result, immediately composed a poem. By following your arrival will find. And you know what he said to me Derenik Demirchian? - You do not work with clay, as you fight! - I have kept the novel Vardanank "with great dedication of the author.
Pro-Gauguin add something not forget - he continued his recommendations for the finalization of the text, and noticing my surprise, explained here .- They showed the transfer of the recently deceased Patriarch Alexy II. Comes in. He to his house, and the first misses his dog! Thus here. With a quivering, deeply human in this is!
Today the phone rang. - Hello, this Kohl, - I hear a voice in the tube Varpeta. - You went away, and I remembered that I have something to tell about Saroyan, come, let's talk ...
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