Valmar (painter)

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Valmar
Վալմար
Volodya Margaryan 1.jpg
BornVolodya Margaryan
(1948-04-21) April 21, 1948 (age 70)
Gyumri
Nationality Armenian
Known for Painter
Awards 2006 Honored Artist of The Republic of Armenia.
2007 Golden medal after “Catholicos of all Armenians, Vazgen 1-st”.
2008 Golden medal of the “Ministry of Culture”.
2011 Prime-minister medal.
2011 “Master” honourable gold medal.
2013 RA Culture Ministry “ Grigor Narekatsy” medal.

Volodya Margaryan (Armenian : Վոլոդյա Մարգարյան) known as Valmar (Armenian : Վալմար; born 21 April 1948), is an Armenian painter. People's artist of the Republic of Armenia (2015). [1]

Biography

Volodya Margaryan was born in 1948 in Gyumri. 1966 he studied at Merkurov School of Fine Arts, Gyumri. 1972 he graduated from Yerevan Fine Arts Institute, he was a student of Armenian Painter and sculptor Yervand Kochar. Since 1972 Valmar participated in many exhibitions organized in the Armenian Republic and abroad. In 1976 he became member of the Artist Union of the USSR, since 1994 member of international union of artists (UNESCO). 1976-1980 he has been the director of Akhourian Fine Arts School and Secretary of the Armenian Artists Union of Gyumri. In 1980 he became head of the art department at Yerevan Art School #1. In 2004 Valmar founded "Valmar Art Gallery" in Yerevan.

Valmar is an author of many art and design books. [2]

Valmar's works are kept in National Gallery of Armenia, Museum of Modern Art, Art Museum of Vanadzor, Echmiadzin, Jermuk and Gyumri, Museum of Friendship of Russia and Armenian Peoples (Abovyan), Ministry of Culture of Armenia (Archives of Fine Arts), The Tretiakov State Art Gallery, The Museum of Eastern Peoples, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Archives of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, in Hammer Collection, Alex Manoukian Museum (Detroit), Kew Gallery New York, The “Stamp” company, Italy, “Eadou ko LTD” company, Japan, Galerie Basmajian, France. [3]

Exhibitions

Family

Valmar's daughter Hripsime Margaryan is the head of "Valmar Art Gallery", Yerevan. She is an artist and designer.

See also

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