Zareh Mutafian
Zareh Mutafian ( hy, Զարեհ Մութաֆյան; March 15, 1907 - May 11, 1980) was a French-Armenian painter. Biography He was born in Samsun, on the seaside of Black sea then in the Ottoman Empire. Mutafian was the only one in his family who survived in 1915 genocide. In 1927 he entered to Brera Academy, Milan Art Academy. In 1939 he moved to Paris. He is the father of historian Claude Mutafian. Influenced by Bonnard, Matisse and postimpressionist painters, he regularly displayed his work in exhibitions worldwide, from the 50s to the year of his death, in France, Beyrouth, United States and former Soviet Union. His paintings are gathered in private collections as well as in the National Gallery in Erevan. Besides, he also wrote in armenian several texts and books about the history of painting, esthetics, and issues relative to Armenia (many of which are collected in the french-armenian book ''Chant d'Arménie'', published the year after his death. His most recent exhibition ...
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Samsun
Samsun, historically known as Sampsounta ( gr, Σαμψούντα) and Amisos (Ancient Greek: Αμισός), is a List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, city on the north coast of Turkey and is a major Black Sea port. In 2021, Samsun recorded a population of 710,000 people. The city is the provincial capital of Samsun Province which has a population of 1,356,079. The city is home to Ondokuz Mayıs University, several hospitals, three large shopping malls, Samsunspor football club, an opera and a large and modern manufacturing district. A former Greeks, Greek settlement, the city is best known as the place where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk began the Turkish War of Independence in 1919. Name The present name of the city is believed to have come from its former Greek name of () by a Rebracketing#In Greek, reinterpretation of (meaning "to Amisós") and (Greek suffix for place names) to (: ) and then Samsun (). The early Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus, Hecataeus wrote t ...
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