Koryun Nahapetyan ( hy, Կորյուն Նահապետյան; russian: Корюн Григорьевич Нагапетян; 1926 in
Leninakan
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
– 1999 in
Moscow) was an
Armenian-
Russian painter-nonconformist, sociologist, philosopher and public activist, a participant of the
Bulldozer Exhibition
The Bulldozer Exhibition (russian: link=no, Бульдозерная выставка) was an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest ( Bitsa Park) by Moscow and Leningrad avant-garde artists on 15 September 1974 ...
. He was a member of
UNESCO International Federation of Painters.
Biography
Nahapetyan was born in Hatsik village, near
Leninakan
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
,
Soviet Armenia. In 1950 he moved to
Moscow and worked there in the
ZiL factory.
Nahapetyan finished the art school in Leninakan and
, entered the post-graduate courses at the
VNIITE. In 1978 he founded the "20 Moscow painters" movement.
In 1988 he became one of the founders of
Karabakh Committee of Moscow. In 1999 Nahapetyan was killed in his studio.
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170516023454/http://m-mos.ru/2008/01/34.htm
* http://www.museum.ru/N27429
Armenian painters
Russian people of Armenian descent
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
1926 births
1999 deaths
People from Gyumri
Armenian people murdered abroad
People murdered in Russia
20th-century Russian male artists
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni
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