Stepan Meliksetovich Aghajanian 035 (38941068292)

Stepan Meliksetovich Aghajanian ( hy, Ստեփան Մելիքսեթի Աղաջանյան; 16 December 1863 – 13 December 1940) was an

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n painter; known primarily for portraits and landscapes.

Biography

He was born in

Shusha / hy, Շուշի , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = ShushaCollection2021.jpg , image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govha ...

. His father was a tailor. He began his education at the (1872–1881), then transferred to the local Russian school (1881–1884). Following that, he moved to Baku then, in 1886, left to study in France. He initially studied art in

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(1886–1890). Later, he went to Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian. He was there from 1897 to 1900, studying with

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexa ...

and

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. In 1900, he returned to Shusha, then worked in Baku from 1902 to 1904. Finally, he settled in Rostov-on-Don, where he taught painting in the public schools until 1921. He returned to Armenia in 1921, at the beginning of the

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. After 1929, he worked as a teacher at the Art Industrial College (now the ]). He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR. The following year, he was presented with the

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

. He died in 1940 in

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Stepan Aghajanian
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Brief biography
@ ''Арт-Рисунок'' *John Milner. ''A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420 – 1970''. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Antique Collectors' Club, 1993

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