Valery Arutyunovich Geghamyan (April 7, 1925,

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– September 11, 2000,

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) was a Ukrainian artist of Armenian origin, teacher, founder and dean of the art and graphics faculty at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute (1965-1968).

Biography

Born on April 7, 1925 in the Armenian village of

. Valery's father, Harutyun Khanagyan, was an actor, a well-known comedian from

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. The father was repressed. Valery's mother came from the old princely family of Ter-Meliksitsian, which was also unsafe in those days. The boy was given the surname Geghamyan, derived from the name of his grandfather, whose name was Gegham. In the early

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he entered the Yerevan Art College. From 1945 to 1951 he studied with

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at the Yerevan Art Institute. Since 1953, Valery Geghamyan worked as a leading artist in the section of monumental painting at the Art Fund of the

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, which he entered on the recommendation of Saryan. Since 1957 the artist lived in

Birobidzhan Birobidzhan ( rus, Биробиджа́н, p=bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan; yi, ביראָבידזשאַן, ''Birobidzhan'') is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near th ...

, where he taught at the local art school. In 1958 Valery Geghamyan moved to

Makhachkala Makhachkala ( rus, Махачкала, , məxətɕkɐˈla, links=yes),; av, Махӏачхъала, Maħaçqala; ce, ХӀинжа-ГӀала, Hinƶa-Ġala; az, Маһачгала, Mahaçqala; nog, Махачкала; lbe, Махачкъала; ...

, where he worked as a teacher of painting, drawing and composition at the senior courses of the Makhachkala Art College named after M. Dzhemala. From the beginning of the

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he lived and worked in Odessa. In 1964 Valery Geghamyan became the founder and dean of the graphic arts faculty at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute, where he worked for more than 20 years, from 1965 to 1988. In this period Valery Geghamyan brought up a lot of famous students, among them there are the realized artists Valentin Zakharchenko, Eugene Rachmanin,

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, Viktor Pokydanets, Grigory Sultan and others. Some of his students are also engaged in pedagogical activities, using the experience of their teacher. Valery Arutyunovich Geghamyan died on September 11, 2000 in Odessa. In 2001, a memorial exhibition was held at the

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Work

Known as the author of monumental paintings, large thematic cycles and graphic series. He also painted portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Geghamyan, Valery Ukrainian artists 1925 births 2000 deaths People from Garni K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University academic personnel Soviet painters