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Yenovk Der Hagopian
Yenovk Der Hagopian ( hy, Ենովք Տեր-Հակոբյան; May 24, 1900 – March 15, 1966) was a 20th-century American-Armenian artist, sculptor and musician. Personal life Yenovk Der Hagopian was born in Ishkhanikom, Western Armenia, near Van, Turkey. His father, Hagop, was a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. During the Armenian genocide, Yenovk and his family fled to Yerevan with the help of an American missionary. In 1916, he studied art in Tiflis, was later employed with the Near East Relief Foundation, and served as the director of two orphanages in Nor Bayezid and Yerevan between 1918-1923. Der Hagopian walked with a limp his entire life, carrying a bullet in his leg from his time in the military during the February Uprising. He married Nevart Kalarchian in August 1948, and later moved to Yonkers, New York together where they lived for over a decade. Art career In 1923, Der Hagopian immigrated from Turkey to United States, eventually settled in Boston, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American-Armenian
Armenian Americans ( hy, ամերիկահայեր, ''amerikahayer'') are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia. The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thousands of Armenians settled in the United States following the Hamidian massacres of the mid-1890s, the Adana Massacre of 1909, and the Armenian genocide of 1915–1918 in the Ottoman Empire. Since the 1950s many Armenians from the Middle East (especially from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey) migrated to the U.S. as a result of political instability in the region. It accelerated in the late 1980s and has continued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 due to socio-economic and political reasons. The 2017 American Community Survey estimated that 485,970 Americans held full or partial A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
