Zareh Moskofian ( hy, Զարեհ Մոսքոֆեան, 1898 in Izmit,

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– 1987 in

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) was an Ottoman painter of

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descent.

Life

descent, Moskofian was born in Izmit. He attended the local Armenian school. Upon returning from a trip to

Aleppo )), is an adjective which means "white-colored mixed with black". , motto = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_caption = , image_map1 = ...

, Moskofian began painting. He started with painting the scenery of

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. He then moved to

. In France, Moskofian continued his career in the arts and became a teacher. He died in 1987. He is also noted that during

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 ...

, Moskofian gave refuge and shelter to Jews escaping the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

References

20th-century painters from the Ottoman Empire Armenian painters 20th-century French painters French male painters People from İzmit Armenians from the Ottoman Empire People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust 1898 births 1987 deaths Ethnic Armenian painters Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to France {{Armenia-painter-stub