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Yervant Voskan (1855, Istanbul – Istanbul 1914) was an Armenian
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, sculptor, instructor, and administrator. He is the first known sculptor in modern
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sculpture history and as the first sculpture teacher at the Sanay-i Nefise he educated the first generation of
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sculptors.


Early life and studies

Yervant Voskan was born in 1855 in Samatya, Istanbul into an Armenian family as the son of writer
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(1825 – 1907). His grandfather was
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of Erzurum, a foundryman at the Imperial Mint. After receiving his primary education from his father, he attended the Catholic Makruhyan Armenian School in
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and the Pera Hayr Ananya school. In 1866, with the support of his family, he went to Venice to study at the Murad Raphaelian School. There he was a student of
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. Later he continued his studies in Rome at the
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as a student of
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. In 1878 he was sent to Paris on a state scholarship to be educated in sculpture.


Career

Upon his return to the Ottoman Empire in 1881 he aided in the founding of the department of sculpture at the Sanâyi-i Nefîse Mekteb-i Âlisi in 1883. It was one if the schools first departments and Voskan was its first teacher. He began teaching sculpture in the academy on March 1, 1883. At the time, he was the only professor of sculpture in the Ottoman Empire. The first time period was spent looking for students to teach as it was difficult at the time to find students who wanted to study sculpture. Eventually
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,
Mehmet Bahri Mehmet Bahri (–) was an Ottoman and Turkish painter and sculptor. Bahri was educated at the Sanay-i Nefise Mektebi and was a student of Osgan Efendi. He was close friends with fellow student and sculptor İsa Behzat. After graduating from th ...
and Mesrur Izzet would become Osgan Efendis first students and would be the first representatives of Turkish sculptors in sculpture history. In his 32 years at the school, Oskan would teach the first generation of Turkish sculptors. Voskan is credited with educating the first generation of sculptors of the
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.


Archeological work

Along with Osman Hamdi Bey, Voskan conducted the first scientific based archaeological in the history of the Ottoman Empire. His archaeological research included the Commagene tomb-sanctuary in Nemrut Dağı in south-eastern Anatolia and the Alexander Sarcophagus in Sidon. He was the chief restorer of the Sarcophagus. Yervant Voskan eventually retired from the academy in 1908 and died only 6 years later.


References

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