Martiros Saryan

Martiros Saryan (Armenian Մարտիրոս Սարյան, transliterated Saryan; * 16 Februarjul / February 28 1880greg in Nakhichevan -on-Don in Rostov -on-Don, .. † May 5, 1972 in Yerevan ) was a Russian- Armenian painter.

Life

The first time he visited Armenia as a student of the Moscow Art School in 1901. Armenian mountain scenery inspired him even then so much that he came back again and again in the coming years. His first works between 1904-1908 were realized in close contact with nature and, in turn, referred to as pleasure and dreams.

In the years before the First World War Saryan traveled among other things, to Constantinople Opel, Egypt, Transcaucasia and Tehran to exhibit his paintings there. In 1915 he organized in Echmiadzin help for refugees from Western Armenia after the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

1916 Saryan settled down in Tbilisi, where there is always a large Armenian community, and married Lussik Aghajan, the daughter of writer Ghasaros Aghajan. He founded with other artists the " Union of Armenian Artists in Tbilisi ."

Since 1921, Saryan and his family lived in Yerevan. In the next few years he traveled often to Europe and various regions of the Soviet Union, where his works were exhibited. From 1926 to 1928 he lived in Paris. On the way back most of the images were burned out this time by a fire on board a ship.

He has received numerous prizes and awards, and worked until his death an active role in the rebirth of the Armenian culture. On his initiative, the Academy of Art and the National Museum in Yerevan emerged.

A well-known, 1966 published fragment from his diary reads: