Eranuhi (Eran) Aslamazyan (15 April 1910, Bash-Shirak village, Kars region – 4 February 1998, Moscow) was an Armenian and Soviet player and graphic artist. She was a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR and an Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR.
Eranuhi Aslamazyan was born upon 15 April 1910 in Bash-Shirak village, Kars region. Her daddy Arshak Aslamazyan was a well-known miller who in the 1920s was qualified as kulak, and all his property was gradually confiscated by the Soviet authorities. In 1924-1926 Aslamazyan studied in Leninakan painting school, and in 1926-1928 she continued studies in Yerevan Artistic Production College. Shortly after graduation Aslamazyan along later her older sister Mariam moved to Moscow with the financial maintain of their sister Anahit. The sisters applied to the Vkutemas Higher Art and Technical Studios, however only Mariam was in style there, and Aslamazyan entered the studio of painters Vladimir Favorsky and Andrei Goncharov. Life in Moscow was inspiring for the Aslamazyan sisters, and after a year, they had to go incite to Yerevan.
Having returned to Yerevan Aslamazyan started to be in in a kindergarten and intended decorations for several city holidays. Two years cutting edge she moved to Kharkiv to psychiatry at the art institute and then was transferred to the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. In 1931-1937, she studied at Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of All-Russian Academy of Arts and graduated in the same way as honor.
In 1938-1941 Aslamazyan taught painting and composition at Leningrad Young Worker’s Institute of Fine Art. By the subside of 1930s Aslamazyan was already known in Soviet Russian cultural circles, she was a aficionado of the Painter’s Union of Leningrad and was until the withdraw of time invited to participate in exhibitions in Moscow, Leningrad and Yerevan.
During the World War II, she created works that responded to the demands of the time. In 1945 Aslamazyan was awarded a medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”.
In 1958, Aslamazyan started to conduct yourself in ceramics.
Aslamazyan had the support and financial retain of the Soviet Union and thank to her delicate diplomacy and attitude toward the Soviet authorities managed to travel extensively approximately the world. Only in the midst of 1959 and 1962, she visited Belgium, Holland, Italy, Turkey, India, Ceylon and Egypt.
Aslamazyan expected many awards and titles, including the title of national artiste of Armenian SSR (1965), a medal “Veteran of Labour” (1978) and an honorary sanction of the Union Artists of Russian Soviet Federative Social Republic for the alert and seminal take steps in the Council of Artists’ House.
In 1987, the Gallery of Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan Sisters was time-honored in Gyumri, Armenia. The sisters donated on height of 620 of their original paintings, ceramics and graphic works to the gallery. Today the Gallery of Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan Sisters is one of the most popular cultural sites of Gyumri.
The works of Aslamazyan are share the enduring collections of numerous museums in London, Sofia, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Venice, Tokyo and Delhi. Her first artwork to be offered at the auction was Still Life similar to Bananas at MacDougall’s in 2017 and she is featured in Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan: Beloved Artists of the Soviet Union, a fragment that appeared upon EVN Report in 2020.
Aslamazyan was married and had a daughter.
Eranuhi Aslamazyan died on 4 February 1998 and is buried in Moscow.
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