Martiros Saryan (1880 –1972) was an Armenian painter, the
founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.
From 1910 to 1913 he traveled extensively in Turkey, Egypt
and Iran. In 1915 he went to Echmiadzin to help refugees who had fled from the
Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 he traveled to Tiflis (now
Tbilisi) where he married Lusik Agayan. It was there that he helped organise
the Society of Armenian Artists.
In the difficult years of the 1930s, he mainly devoted
himself again to landscape painting and portraits.
He was chosen as a deputy to the USSR Supreme Soviet and was
awarded the Order of Lenin three times and other awards and medals. He was a
member of the USSR Art Academy (1974) and Armenian Academy of Sciences (1956).
Saryan died in Yerevan on 5 May 1972. His former home in
Yerevan is now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on
display.
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