Ara Sargsyan

Ara Sargsyan studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vladimir Ayvazyan is recorded as having studied under Ara Sargsyan. The recorded working language is Armenian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are printmaking, graphics, scenography and portrait. Residence is recorded at Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Employment is recorded with Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts and Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts and Theater. Work by Ara Sargsyan is recorded in the collections of Ara Sargsyan and Hakob Kojoyan house museum, National Gallery of Armenia, Charents Museum of Literature and Arts, State Museum of Oriental Art and Tretyakov Gallery. Distinctions recorded are People's Painter of the USSR, Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Ara Sargsyan • Native Name — Արա Միհրանի Սարգսյան • Other Names — Ara Migranovich Sarksyan, Ara Sargsian • Birth Name — Ara Mihrani Sargsyan • Born — 7 April 1902 • Birthplace — Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) • Died — 13 June 1969 • Place of death — Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR • Education — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna • Occupation — Sculptor, engraver, educator, scenographer, pedagogue • Illustration — Ara Sargsyan's plaque on Isahakyan street, Yerevan

Ara Mihrani Sargsyan was born on 7 April 1902, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey). He finished the local Armenian school, then Constantinople Art School and studied under the Ottoman Armenian sculptor Yervant Voskan. He moved to Athens in 1920 and further to Rome and Vienna where he studied sculpture till 1925. Sargsyan graduated in 1924 from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

In 1925, Sargsyan moved to Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. He was one of the organizers of the Armenian branch of the AKhRR (1926). Most recognizable works of Ara Sargsyan are the monuments of Mother Armenia in Gyumri, the Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan (with architect Grigor Aghababyan), and Alexander Spendiaryan statue in front of Yerevan Opera Theatre, and the statues of Mesrop Mashtots and Sahak Partev in front of Yerevan State University. Sargsyan taught at the Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts and Theater starting in 1945; and a professor starting in 1947. He was a prolific teacher and influenced numerous artists, including Rafik Khachatryan (1937–1993). He died on 13 June 1969, in Yerevan. Sargsyan's former house in Yerevan has been converted into a museum, where most of his works are presented.