Karlen Avetisyan (, November 28, 1940 – May 7, 2004) was an Armenian painter and restorer.

Biography

Karlen Avetisyan was born in the village of Arevshat,

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. In 1961 he graduated from the Fine Arts College named after P. Terlemezyan, and in 1969 - the Armenian Academy of Fine Arts and Theatre. During 1970–1988 he worked as a painter-restorer at the Monuments Protection Department. Since 1977 Avetisyan has been teaching in the Fine Arts College after P. Terlemezian, during 1996-2004 he served as a professor of composition at the Fine Arts Academy of Armenia. Karlen Avetisyan died on May 7, 2004.

Works

Karlen Avetisyan is the author of

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s ( Grand Hotel Yerevan, 1999) and

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which are kept in House-Museum of Khachatur Abovyan (1973), curtain-tapestry in Sports and Music Hall after K. Demirchyan (1984). In 1990 he finished the tapestry based on a sketch of

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, which is now kept in the depositary of

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. Avetisyan worked on the projection of historical monuments and has published books (Earthy Creations", Ararat the Mather of Dimensional Figures Light"). Avetisyan is famous for his graphic works: * “Flower day”, 1989 * “Family”, 1989 * “Composition”, 1996 * “Early Morning”, 1989 * “Adams Fall”, 1999 * “Blossom”, 2000 Avetisyan's works were exhibited in Yerevan in 2003, in

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and the

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References

Sources

*Who is who? Armenians. Biographical Encyclopedia, Volumes First, Yerevan, 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Avetisyan, Karlen 1940 births 2004 deaths Armenian artists Soviet artists 20th-century Armenian painters