Hakob Hakobian (painter)
Encyclopedia
Hakob Hakobian (born in 1923, Egypt
) is a modern Armenia
n 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.
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.
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
) is a modern Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n 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
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
to refugee Armenian parents living abroad since the World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
-era genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...
, Hakobian studied at the Melkonian Armenian school (Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
) 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
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
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.
Hakobian has made several exhibitions in Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and other cities.