Gevork Kotiantz

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz
Born	November 12, 1909(1909-11-12) Shusha, Armenia, Russian Empire
Died	August 28, 1996(1996-08-28) (aged 86) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Armenian
Field	Painting

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz (Russian: Гево́рк Варта́нович Котья́нц; November 12, 1909, Shusha, Armenia, Russian Empire - August 28, 1996, Saint Petersburg, Russia ), - Soviet, Russian - Armenian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Biography

Plums. 1974

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz was born November 12, 1909 in Shusha, Armenia.

In 1927-1935 Gevork Kotiantz studied in private Art Studio in Pyatigorsk city, Northern Caucus, then in the Higher School of Artists improvement qualification in Leningrad, where he studied of Pavel Naumov, Alexander Karev, and Rudolf Frentz.

In these same years Gevork Kotiantz has discovered the art of French Impressionists, in many ways changed the direction of its own creative searches.

In 1939 Gevork Kotiantz was drafted into the Red Army, he participated in the Winter war of 1939-1940.

From the early days of Operation Barbarossa Gevork Kotiantz in the Red Army on the Leningrad front. He was wounded, marked by military awards.

His first participation in art exhibitions related to 1930 in Pyatigorsk city, Northern Caucus. After the second world war Gevork Kotiantz becomes permanent participant of exhibitions of Leningrad artists since 1948. He painted still lifes, portraits, genre and historical paintings. His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad in 1979, and in Moscow in 1985.

Gevork Kotiantz was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1957.

Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz died on August 28, 1996 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-seventh year of life. Paintings by Gevork Kotiantz reside in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, France, Armenia, in the U.S., Italy, and throughout the world.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of 20th century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Gallery

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  Still-life. 1972

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  Green Still-life. 1971

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  Cherry. 1970

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  Sponge. 1956

Bibliography

• Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1954. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Izogiz Edition, 1954. - p. 12.
• Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1955. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad Union of Artists, 1956. - p. 12.
• Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad Union of Artists, 1956.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad Union of Artists Edition, 1958. - p. 14.
• 1917 - 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1957. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1958. - p. 19.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1959. - p. 16.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1963. - p. 12.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1961. - p. 23.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964. - p. 23.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1962. - p. 16.
• The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. - p. 28.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1968. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1971. - p. 9.
• Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1969. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. - p. 12.
• Art works by Russian Federation Artists grants to Museums and Culture Institutions (1963 - 1971). Official Catalogue. - Moscow: Russian Federation Union of Artists, 1972. - p. 52.
• Our Contemporary Exhibition catalogue of works by Leningrad artists of 1971. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. - p. 13.
• The Still-Life. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Exhibition catalogue. -Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1973. - p. 10.
• Our Contemporary The Second Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1972. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1973. - p. 7.
• Our Contemporary The Third Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1973. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. - p. 9.
• Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. - p. 16.
• Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p. 17.
• The Fine Arts of Leningrad. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1976. - p. 21.
• The Portrait of Contemporary the fifth exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1976. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. - p. 12.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1982. - p. 15.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1978. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. - p. 10.
• Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz. Exhibition of works. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1979.
• Directory of members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1. - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 552.
• Regional Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1980. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. - p. 15.
• Exhibitions of Soviet art. Directory. Volume 5. 1954 - 1958. - Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1981. - pp. 25, 27, 142, 259, 261, 386, 548.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists-veterans of Great Patriotic war. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1990. - p. 10.
• Gevork Kotiantz. Painting. Exhibition of works. Catalogue. - Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1985.
• Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p. 64.
• Saint-Petersbourg - Pont-Audemer. Dessins, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siecle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint-Petersbourg. - Pont-Audemer: 1994. - pp. 99, 104.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Link of Times: 1932 - 1997. Artists - Members of Saint - Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia. Exhibition catalogue. - Saint - Petersburg: Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, 1997. - p. 290.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 18, 21, 24, 363, 389, 390, 392-400, 402-404, 443, 444. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.

External links

• Gevork Kotiantz at the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.