Vahram Manavian (Born

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1880 – died

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1952) was an Ottoman and Egyptian painter of

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n descent.

Life

Vahram Manavian was born in Istanbul, one of six children of the writer Dikran Manavian. He began taking art lessons from the painter

Simon Agopyan Simon Agopian or Simon Hagopian at times Simon Agopyan (; Western Armenian Սիմոն Յակոբեան, 1857 - 16 May 1921) was a prominent Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter. Life Simon Agopian was born in Samatya, a district in ...

and later graduated the

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. He went to Paris, France where he took lessons at the

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. He emigrated with his family to Egypt in 1911 and settled in

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. He became an art teacher and later set up a business for financial reasons, as well as working as a photographer. Meanwhile, he continued to paint. He moved to

and in 1934 opened a joint exhibition with the painter Yervant Demirciyan. His second exhibition was held at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1951. He died in Cairo. His paintings are still being exhibited throughout the world.

Publication

* Egyptian Humour, 1916 - Caricatures and cartoonsWorldcat
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manavian, Vahram 1880 births 1952 deaths Painters from Istanbul 20th-century painters from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century Armenian painters 20th-century Egyptian painters 20th-century Egyptian educators Egyptian cartoonists Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul alumni Académie Julian alumni Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Egyptian people of Armenian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Egypt