Artsrunyan Eduard Stimonovich

Armenian and Soviet painter, teacher, one of the largest representatives of modern Armenian painting. People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1989). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1961). After graduating from the Leninakan Art School in 1944. Merkurov, was accepted into the art school named after P. Terlemezyan in Yerevan. He continued his studies at the secondary art school at the All-Russian Academy of Arts (1947-1951). In 1951-1957 he studied at the painting department of the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repin at the USSR Academy of Arts in Leningrad. He moved to Moscow, where he worked at the Plakat publishing house. In 1974 he moved to Armenia and settled in Yerevan. In the 1980-1990s - member of the board of the Union of Artists, chairman of the painting section of the Union of Artists of Armenia. He taught at the Yerevan Art School. Terlemezyan, at the Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts (Armenia)). In 1957, he participated for the first time in the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow. Subsequently he participated in many collective exhibitions. In 1991-2004 he had numerous personal exhibitions in a number of cities in Armenia and the USSR - in Yerevan, Etchmiadzin, Gyumri, Moscow, as well as in foreign countries, including France, Great Britain, Spain, Iran, the USA, America, Russia, Cyprus. After suffering a stroke in 2005, he was partially paralyzed, but did not stop working with one hand. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the National Art Gallery of Armenia and the Museum of Modern Art (Yerevan), in the collections of the Ministry of Culture and the Art Fund of Armenia, as well as in numerous private collections in Armenia and abroad.