Gevork Kotiantz
| Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz | |
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| Born |
November 12, 1909 Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | August 28, 1996 (aged 86) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards |
Order of the Red Star Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" Medal for Battle Merit Medal "For the Victory Over Germany" Order of the Patriotic War |
Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz (Armenian: Գևորգ Վարդանի Կոթյանց; Russian: Гево́рк Варта́нович Котья́нц; November 12, 1909, Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire – August 28, 1996, Saint Petersburg, Russia ) was a Soviet, Russian - Armenian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
He was born November 12, 1909 in Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate in the family of craftsman jeweler. In the same year his family moved to the North Caucasus in Pyatigorsk.
In 1927-1929 Kotiantz engaged in a private Art studio in Pyatigorsk, independently studied paintings of outstanding artists of the past through books and reproductions, and a lot painted from the life. In 1929 he became a member of the Pyatigorsk branch of the AKhR — Association of Artists of the Revolution (Russian: Ассоциация художников революции, Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsii or AKhR, 1928-1932).
In 1930 for the first time Kotiantz participated in Art exhibition in Pyatigorsk, then in the cities of the North Caucasus Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Mineral Waters.
In 1931-1932 Kotiantz works as an artist at the Museum of the Revolution in Pyatigorsk, where he trying his hand in the genre of historical and revolutionary paintings. Several of his works were purchased by the museum.
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