Arpenik Nalbandyan


Arpenik Nalbandyan was a Soviet-Armenian artist.

Biography

Arpenik Nalbandyan was born on 23 December 1916 in Tbilisi. From 1935 to 1941 she studied painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia. Nalbandyan became a member of the Armenian Artists Union in 1943. In 1946 she started to teach at the Yerevan Institution of Fine Arts and Theater. In 1948 and 1952 she was elected as deputy of City Council. In 1956 she was awarded the "Honored worker" medal, and 1957 she was appointed to teach in Moscow. In 1961 she became Honorary Artist of the Armenian SSR.
Arpenik Nalbandyan died on 17 May 1964 in Yerevan.

Exhibitions

She participated in exhibitions in her home republic and in other parts of the USSR.
  • 1942 "The Red Army heroism", Yerevan
  • 1943 Reporting exhibition, Artist's house, Yerevan
  • 1948 38 works, Artist's house, Yerevan
  • 1967 Artist's house, Yerevan
  • 1988 Portrait exhibition, Yerevan
  • 2001 Albert and Tove gallery, YSA of Fine Arts
  • 2016 Solo exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Arpenik Nalbandyan at the National Gallery of Armenia

Family

Works

She has composed in the field of easel paintings. The works are prominent for their acute observation and delicate lyricism.
Her paintings can be found at the National Gallery of Armenia, the Georgian National Gallery, the Gyumri Gallery, and in private collections.

Portraits

  • "Self Portrait", 1942
  • "The girl" - 1957
  • "Mery Kochar's portrait", 1960, ANG
  • "Mom Ovsanna", 1962
  • "H. Hovhannisyan", 1963

Household paintings

  • "In meditations", 1939
  • "At the source", 1957
  • "The gammer from Voskevaz", 1958

Landscape paintings

  • "Akhtala", 1943
  • "Autumn landscape", 1953
  • "Khndzoresk", 1962

Medals and awards

  • "Honored worker" medal, 1956
  • The People's Painter of Armenia, 1961.

External sources