Surenants Biography

The menu was born in Akhaltsikh in the family of a priest - a teacher of the history of religion. In the year, together with his family, he moved to Simferopol. In the year, his father was appointed as the presbyter of the Moscow Armenian diocese and the family moves to Moscow. In - gg. He goes to OM to visit his brother in Munich and enters there at the Architectural Department of the Munich Academy of Arts, he studies and graduates from the Faculty of Painting of the same Academy from Fritz Kaulbach, possibly also at Otto Zeitz.

In Venice, the artist visited the Armenian monastic Order of Mkhitarists on the island of St. Lazarus; He studied the art of the Armenian medieval book painting, created portraits of A. Bagratuni, M. Chamchyan, E. As a result of the trip, his first theoretical article on Armenian architecture, published in the journal Mega Armenia in the year, was born. Zhukovsky Surenants travels along Iran, where he wrote many studies and compositions.

In the year, he visited Ani, Sevan and others. Since the year, Surenants participated in the artistic life of Moscow and St. Petersburg. He was one of the organizers of the 1st meeting of Russian artists, along with K. Korovin and others took an active part of the 2nd meeting of the year. From the year he took part in exhibitions of art organizations. Leonardo da Vinci, Kuindzhi, artists of historical painting [3].

In the year, the painting “Rided” participated in the exhibition of the Wanderers [1] [3]. In —Gg. In the year, in Baku, his first and only personal exhibition during his lifetime was organized. Since the year, a member of the organization of the Wanderers in the year, together with E. Tadevosyan, M. Saryan, F. Terlempyan and others. In the year, he moves to Yalta, where he writes sketches of the Armenian churches.

He died on April 6th. Studying the culture of the East and the West, Wardges Surenants managed to create his own unique national style [4]. In Armenian painting, he practically becomes the founder of the historical genre [1]. Many of the best works of the artist reflect different episodes of the history of Armenia, illustrate the plots from the ancient Armenian mythology [4] - “Semiramida at the corpse of Ara Beautiful”, “Ani, the 11th century.

The exit of women from the church ”,“ The return of the queen wandered to the throne ”and others. The “abandoned” Surenants, as it is believed, first introduced into Armenian painting the latest methods of artistic expression of modern Western culture. In this and further works, “Proordinated shrine”, “Church of St. Some of his works of the x. Also in the works - cg. Surenants enriched the Armenian painting with the new manifestations of painting of artistic centers of time Munich, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, St.

Petersburg, not limiting the national art of purely national facets. The painting “Semiramid at the corpse of Ara Beautiful”-although it is the embodiment of a purely Armenian legend, is nevertheless more devoted to some united idea of ​​life, fate, gloomy thoughts. In the background of the picture, Surenants depicted the bas -relief of Gilgamesh, the hero of the epic Gilgamesh, which also considers the idea of ​​a triumph of life over death, the idea of ​​resurrection [6].

His "Church of St. Ripsima near Echmiadzin ”, being a historical landscape picture [5], symbolizes the tragedy and the exalted spirit of the Armenian people. One of the best works of the artist - Salome, was shown in the Munich Academy of Arts in the year, and in M ​​- at the World Fine Art Exhibition in Venice. The Munich Academy, which he graduated in G.

Unfortunately, the artist could not complete the painting of the Armenian church in Yalta, in the creation of which he took part as an architect and as an artist. The National Picture Gallery of Armenia contains a solid collection of his works, complete compassion for their native people and anxiety for his future. He worked in the field of book illustration, among the best works - an illustration of the "Bakhchisarai fountain" by A.

Pushkin published by the author of the author. The high artistic level of graphic art of time made his illustrations for the works of “Infanta's Birthday” by O. Wilde, Armenian folk tales - are especially remarkable to illustrations for the book “Armenian poet Smbat Shakhaziz”, Moscow, to the plays of M. Tolstoy, to the works of J. Rodenbach, S. Lagerleuf and other illustrations of the Surenskaya to various Publications, graphic sketches, picturesque canvases are saturated with national color.

The artist was unusually fascinated by the book miniature of Armenians, whose achievements and techniques he used in his work. In the city of Vardges Surenants, he is also known as a theater artist, he was engaged in the design of the scene at the Mariinsky Theater of the 2nd Act of Ballet A. Adan “Korsar” and the opera of A. Rubinstein “Demon” at the Moscow Art Theater of Meterlink “Blind”, “There”, “Uninvited”, in the theater of Vera Komissarzhevskaya “Drama of Love” was born in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsihi in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsih in Akhaltsia The priest is a teacher of the history of religion.