Hakob Hakobian (painter)

Hakob Hakobian (Hakobyan) (born in 1923, Egypt) is a modern Armenian painter. He has awarded by the honorary title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and a State Prize of the Armenia titles.

He studied at the Melkonian Armenian school (Cyprus) and Acade'mie de la Grande Chaumiere. His early works are small-size oils: one-figure compositions in interiors and still lifes. Hakobyan moved to his historical homeland, Armenia, from Egypt in 1962, and his new world became the native landscape.

His personages are social or occupational types, static figures circumscribed by a space limited in depth, their mood of constraint and isolation suggest a miserable existence.

Hakobian made several exhibitions in Yerevan, Moscow and other cities.

Famous works

*“A Woman Frying Fish” (1962, oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm.)

Filmography

*Painter Hakob Hakobyan / Nkarich Hakob Hakobyan 1990, Yerevan, Hayk Studio, 20min.

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