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Hakob HAKOBYANPainter
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Place of birth: Alexandria
Date of birth: 24.05.1923
Hakob Hakobyan (Hakobian) is a modern Armenian painter. Hakobian was decorated with the honorary title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and has won the State Prize of Armenia.
Born in Egypt to refugee Armenian parents living abroad since the World War I-era genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, Hakobian studied at the Melkonian Armenian school (Cyprus) and Acade'mie de la Grande Chaumiere. His early works are small-size oils: one-figure compositions in interiors and still lifes.
Part of a massive mid-20th century wave of Armenian exiles and their families returning to their familial homeland, Hakobian immigrated to the Soviet Union to settle in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1962, and his new world became the Armenian landscape.[1]
His personages are social or occupational types, static figures circumscribed by a space limited in depth, their mood of constraint and isolation suggest a miserable existence.
Hakobian has made several exhibitions in Yerevan, Moscow and other cities.
Famous works
“A Woman Frying Fish” (1962, oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm.)
Filmography
Painter Hakob Hakobyan / Nkarich Hakob Hakobyan/ 1990, Yerevan, Hayk Studio, 20min.
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