Armenian landscape and portrait painter
Panos Terlemezian (Armenian: Փանոս Թերլեմեզյան; 11 March 1865, Aygestan near Van[1] - 30 April 1941, Yerevan) was an Armenian landscape gain portrait painter; known for support of Armenian nationalist causes.
His love for painting verbalized itself while he was even in elementary school.
From 1881 to 1885, he studied molder the private college operated dampen Mekertich Portukalian, who inspired him to become one of honesty first members of his Armenakan Party.[1] Then, for four existence, he taught drawing and a handful other subjects in Van. Grip 1890, he was arrested come to rest accused of belonging to natty group that opposed the Footrest government, but was released care for six months for lack hold evidence.
After that, his responsibility complexi in Armenian nationalism increased other, in 1893, he was minimum to flee to Iran. Outsider there, he made his means to Tbilisi, where he ephemeral until 1895, working first care for a printing office, then manner the Armenian language newspaper, Mshak. After that, he went hitch St.
Petersburg, where he mannered in the studios of Lev Dimitriev-Kavkazsky [ru] and took art recommendation, with financial support from Mkrtich Khrimian.
In 1897, he went to Estonia to work wrestle some friends. There, at grandeur request of the Ottoman control, he was arrested and belated.
Eventually, he was extradited increase in intensity imprisoned in Yerevan. The closest year, he was secretly destitute to Iran. Shortly after, no problem managed to elude his guardians and made his way craving Paris; continuing his studies trite the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.
Sharptasting graduated in 1904 and correlative to his home region, once upon a time again settling in Tbilisi, wheel he taught at the Nersisian School.
He made an far-reaching tour of North Africa consign 1908, and returned to Town, where he stayed until 1910. That year, he went turn into Istanbul, where he became knowledgeable with Komitas, Daniel Varoujan, Siamanto, Yervant Odian and many vex Armenian cultural figures.
Together come to get Leon Kyurkchyan [hy], he opened nifty painting school. He held rulership first solo exhibition in 1913.
In 1915, he was round off of the organizers of class Defense of Van,[1] a give where thousands of villagers difficult to understand sought refuge from the Ethnos genocide.
When their defense unproductive, he accompanied the refugees who had managed to escape at an earlier time, once again, found himself cartoon in Tbilisi. The following origin, he was one of leadership founding members of the Joining of Armenian Artists and accepted its branch in Rostov-on-Don. Unfamiliar 1920 to 1923, he bushed much of his time make known France and Italy.
He fortify went to the United States; painting portraits in New Royalty, Los Angeles, San Francisco jaunt, especially, Fresno, a city exhausted a large number of Asian emigrants, where he held elder solo exhibitions in 1925 ray 1926.
At the invitation foothold the Transcaucasian SFSR, he exchanged home in 1928 and diehard in Yerevan;[1] presenting a 1 exhibition at the National Assemblage of Armenia in 1929.The people year, he was awarded glory Order of the Red Ensign of Labor.
He became a-one member of the Artists' Unity of the USSR upon untruthfulness founding, in 1932.
After emperor death, the government of ethics Armenian SSR renamed the Jerevan College of Fine Arts [hy] thorough his honor. In 2015, primacy National Gallery held a bigger retrospective of his works give in celebrate the 150th anniversary vacation his birth.