Arpenik Nalbandyan ( hy, Արփենիկ Նալբանդյան, December 23, 1916 – May 17, 1964) was a Soviet-Armenian artist.

Biography

Arpenik Nalbandyan was born on 23 December 1916 in Tbilisi. From 1935 to 1941 she studied painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia. Nalbandyan became a member of the Armenian Artists Union in 1943. In 1946 she started to teach at the Yerevan Institution of Fine Arts and Theater. In 1948 and 1952 she was elected as deputy of City Council. In 1956 she was awarded the "Honored worker" medal, and 1957 she was appointed to teach in Moscow. In 1961 she became Honorary Artist of the

Armenian SSR The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...

. Arpenik Nalbandyan died on 17 May 1964 in Yerevan.

Exhibitions

She participated in exhibitions in her home republic and in other parts of the USSR. * 1942 "The Red Army heroism", Yerevan * 1943 Reporting exhibition, Artist's house, Yerevan (solo exhibition) * 1948 38 works, Artist's house, Yerevan (solo exhibition) * 1967 Artist's house, Yerevan (solo exhibition) * 1988 Portrait exhibition, Yerevan * 2001 Albert and Tove gallery, YSA of Fine Arts (solo exhibition) * 2016 Solo exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Arpenik Nalbandyan at the National Gallery of Armenia

Family

* Brother -

Dmitry Nalbandyan Dmitriy Nalbandyan ( hy, Դմիտրի Նալբանդյան, russian: Дми́трий Налбандя́н, September 15, 1906 in Tiflis – July 2, 1993 in Moscow) was a Soviet Armenian painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1969), member of t ...

, people's painter of the USSR, an actual member of The Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR. * Husband -

Eduard Isabekyan Eduard Isabekyan (; November 8, 1914 – August 17, 2007) was an Armenians, Armenian Painting, painter, founder of thematic compositional genre in Armenia. Biography *2007 – August 17 Eduard Isabekyan died. Buried in Komitas Pantheon A separ ...

, people's painter of Armenia, professor. They married in 1940. * Sons: ** Mher Isabekyan - painter ** Aram Isabekyan - painter, rector of the

Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia (SAFAA, hy, Հայաստանի գեղարվեստի պետական ակադեմիա), is a state-owned public university located in Yerevan, Armenia. Founded in 1946, operating jointly with the Yerevan Stat ...

, professor

Works

She has composed in the field of easel paintings. The works are prominent for their acute observation and delicate lyricism. Her paintings (around 300) can be found at the National Gallery of Armenia (around 45), the Georgian National Gallery, the Gyumri Gallery, and in private collections.

Portraits

* "Self Portrait", 1942 * "The girl" - 1957 * "Mery Kochar's portrait", 1960, ANG * "Mom Ovsanna", 1962 * "H. Hovhannisyan", 1963

Household paintings

* "In meditations", 1939 * "At the source", 1957 * "The gammer from Voskevaz", 1958

Landscape paintings

* "Akhtala", 1943 * "Autumn landscape", 1953 * "Khndzoresk", 1962

Medals and awards

* "Honored worker" medal, 1956 * The People's Painter of Armenia, 1961.

References

External sources

Arpenik Nalbandyan

Artists, Arpenik Nalbandyan
* Le Musée des Arts de l՚Arménie (Composition et introduction de N. Mazmanian) – Leningrad, Aurore, 1975, p. 94 * Armenian women artists 2000 – Armenian Culture Foundation (calendar) * Arpenik Nalbandyan 100 (Author Hasmik Badalyan) – catalogue, Yerevan, 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nalbandyan, Arpenik 1916 births 1964 deaths Armenian artists Painters from Georgia (country) Artists from Tbilisi Georgian people of Armenian descent Soviet artists 20th-century Armenian painters 20th-century Armenian women artists