Yervand Kochar
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Born
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1899-06-15
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June 15, 1899
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Died
| January 22, 1979
(1979-01-22)
(aged 79)
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Resting place
| Komitas Pantheon
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Nationality
| Armenian
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Other names
| Ervand Kochar, Yervand Kocharyan
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Education
| Nersisian School
Arts School of the Caucasus Association for Promotion of Fine Arts
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Known for
| Painting
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sculpture
,
drawing
,
inventing
,
writing
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Movement
| Futurism
,
cubism
,
surrealism
,
impressionism
,
avant-garde
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Spouse
| Vardeni Kochar (m. 1923, d.1928)
Meline Kochar (m. 1929-1936, d. 1967)
Manik Mkrtchyan-Kochar (m. 1944-1979, d.1984)
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Children
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Yervand "Kochar" Kocharyan
, also known as
Ervand Kochar
(
Armenian
:
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; 1899 ? 1979) was a prominent sculptor and modern artist of the twentieth century and a founder of
Painting in Space
art movement. The Ervand Kochar Museum is located in
Yerevan
,
Armenia
and showcases much of his work.
[1]
[2]
Biography
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Early life and career
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Kochar was born in
Tiflis
,
Russian Empire
on June 15, 1899, to Simon Kocharian of
Shushi
and Pheocia Martirosian.
[3]
He graduated in 1918 from
Nersisian School
, and, between 1915 and 1918, also studied at the Arts School of the Caucasus Association for Promotion of Fine Arts (known as O. Schmerling School) in Tbilisi.
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citation needed
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From 1918 to 1919 he studied at the State Free Art Studio of Moscow. He returned to Tbilisi, where he was granted a certificate of professor of Fine Arts and Technical Studies by the People's Commissariat of the Georgian SSR.
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In 1921?1922, Kochar was elected to the exhibition commission of the Union of Armenian Artists and became a member of the "HAYARTUN" (House of Armenian Art).
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By April 1922, he left from Batum and traveled abroad to
Constantinople
, then to
Venice
,
Rome
,
Florence
and
Paris
.
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Kochar's works were first exhibited in Tbilisi in 1921 and the following year in Allied-controlled
Constantinople
(
Istanbul
) and in
Venice
.
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Later life and career
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By 1923 Kochar had settled down in Paris, where his art was well received.
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In 1928 there were reported cases of vandalism towards two sculpture-paintings by Kochar in the exhibition at the
Salon des Independants
. Those works were the first heralds of "
Painting in Space
".
In February Dr. Alendi delivered a lecture in
Sorbonne
on Kochar's "new painting". Kochar's Painting in Space one-man show opened in "Van Leer" Gallery. The 15 works presented were new plastic and artistic means of expression which sought to involve time as an additional fourth dimension. The author of the catalogue was French-Polish art critic
Waldemar George
(1893-1970). In 1929 the international exhibition, "Panorama de L`art contemporain"("Panorama of Contemporary Art") organized in the halls of the "BONAPART" Publishers, Kochar presented the works of "Painting in Space". Among the participants of the exhibition were
Georges Braque
,
Marc Chagall
,
Robert Delaunay
,
Henri Matisse
,
Francis Picabia
,
Pablo Picasso
, Liursa,
Joan Miro
, Survage, Utrillo, Vlamink, and others. Kochar met
Leonce Rosenberg
, the well-known patron and connoisseur of modern art, who became a fan of Kochar's art. In 1936, while at the peak of his artistic fame, to the surprise of many, Kochar repatriated to the
Armenian SSR
, without the least bit of doubt that he was leaving Paris for good.
Between 1941 and 1943 Kochar was imprisoned on politically motivated charges, but was eventually freed due to the intervention of his friends from Nersissian School, Karo Halabian and
Anastas Mikoyan
.
Yervand Kochar continued working in Yerevan, earning award recognition as People's Artist of Armenian SSR in 1965, State Prize of the Armenian SSR in 1967,
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
in 1971 and
People's Artist of the Soviet Union
in 1976.
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His most recognized works include the statues of
David of Sassoun
(1959) which has become the symbol of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia; of
Vardan Mamikonian
(1975); of
Komitas
(1969) in
Echmiadzin
. One of his masterpieces in painting is "Disasters of War".
In 1963 The National Museum of Modern Art
Centre Georges Pompidou
in Paris acquired one of Kochar's works of "Painting in the Space" (1934).
In 1999
UNESCO
marked Kochar's centennial as one of the "outstanding dates" in world art. In 2010
Armenia
's Union of Artists opened an exhibit dedicated to Yervand Kochar's artistic legacy marking 110 years since the artist's birth.
He was married to
philologist
Manik Mkrtchyan (1913?1984), with whom he had two sons, Haykaz Kochar (1946) and
Ruben Kochar
(1953).
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Death and legacy
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He died January 22, 1979, Yerevan,
Soviet Armenia
. In 1984, a museum in his name was dedicated to his art and opened near
Yerevan Cascade
, in Yerevan, Armenia.
Filmography
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- Tghamardik
(1973) (as Yervand Kochar)
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