Hakob Hakobyan

Hakob Hakobyan studied at Melkonian Educational Institute and Académie de la Grande Chaumière. The recorded working language is Armenian. Residence is recorded at Armenia. Work by Hakob Hakobyan is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Armenia. Distinctions recorded are honorary citizen of Yerevan, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR, Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots and USSR State Prize.

• Name — Hakob Hakobian • Born — 16 May 1923 • Birthplace — Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt • Died — 9 March 2013 • Place of death — Yerevan, Armenia • Awards — People's Artist of the USSR State Prize of the Republic of Armenia Mesrob Mashtots Medal • Illustration — Garlics (1961) by Hakobian

Hagopian was born in Egypt. He took on his early education at Melkonian Armenian school in Cyprus. He later attended the Institute of Fine Arts in Cairo and then was granted scholarship to attend Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He also studied at the studio of renowned painter Andre L’Hote during his stay in Paris. 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, Hagopian immigrated to the Soviet Union to settle in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1962, and his new world became the Armenian landscape. 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. Hagopian had several exhibitions in Yerevan, Moscow, and other cities. He died in Yerevan, aged 89.

• A Woman Frying Fish (1962, oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm.)

• The Song of Earthen Colors exhibition clip May 2011 • Painter Hakob Hakobyan / Nkarich Hakob Hakobyan 1990, Yerevan, Hayk Studio, 20min.