Levon Manaseryan (; June 3, 1925 – September 12, 2019) was an

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

artist and university professor.

Biography

Levon Manaseryan was born in the city

Vagharshapat Vagharshapat ( hy, Վաղարշապատ ) is the 4th-largest city in Armenia and the most populous municipal community of Armavir Province, located about west of the capital Yerevan, and north of the closed Turkish-Armenian border. It is comm ...

, Armenia. 1943–1944 Participated in the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

.
1951 Artist at the

theatre.
1953 Graduated from the Yerevan Art & Theatre Institute.
1958 Member of the Armenian Union of Artists.
1961 The First Prize at a National Contest for the poster "The Hero of Gugarats Land".
1963 Instructor in the Chair of Drawing and Painting, Yerevan Polytechnic Institute.
1971 Award of the Ministry of Education of the Armenian SSR for his ABC Text book.
1980 Docent at the Chair of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Yerevan Polytechnic Institute 1983 Honored Artist of Armenia.
1983 Medal "Высшая Школа СССР " ("Higher School of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

") honorable award of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR.
1984 Bronze Medal of the Pan-Soviet Exhibition of the Achievements of National Economy.
2006 Professor of the

Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia (NUACA) ( hy, Ճարտարապետության և շինարարարության Հայաստանի ազգային համալսարան, ՃՇՀԱՀ), is a state university in Yerevan ...

.
2009 Gold Medal of the Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction.

References

External links

Paintings on Facebook page

National Gallery of Armenia
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