Stepan Aghajanian

Stepan Meliksetovich Aghajanian (Armenian: Ստեփան Մելիքսեթի Աղաջանյանը; 16 December 1863, Shusha – 13 December 1940, Yerevan) was an Armenian painter; known primarily for portraits and landscapes.

Self-portrait (1926)
Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Biography

His father was a tailor. He began his education at the Shusha Diocesan School (1872-1881), then transferred to the local Russian school (1881-1884). Following that, he moved to Baku then, in 1886, left to study in France.

He initially studied art in Marseille (1886-1890). Later, he went to Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian. He was there from 1897 to 1900: studying with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.

In 1900, he returned to Shusha, then worked in Baku from 1902 to 1904. Finally, he settled in Rostov-on-Don, where he taught painting in the public schools until 1921.

He returned to Armenia in 1921, at the beginning of the Russian Civil War. After 1929, he worked as a teacher at the Art Industrial College (now the Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts]). He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR. The following year, he was presented with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Sources

Further reading
  • Paravon Mirzoyan, Stepan Aghajanian 150, 1863-1940, Edit Print, 2013 ISBN 978-9939-527-25-3

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