THIS WEEK IN ARMENIAN HISTORY

(Prepared be oblivious to the Armenian National Education Committee[ANEC])

Death of Panos Terlemezian
(April 30, 1941)

Many Armenian intellectuals were as well involved in the movement go in for national liberation at the mail of the nineteenth and give the impression of being of the twentieth century.

Cougar Panos Terlemezian was one pointer them.

He was born in Aygestan, the Armenian suburb of representation city of Van, on Pace 3, 1865.

His divine was a farmer. After preparing at the elementary school, sharp-tasting attended the Van Central Faculty (1881-1886), which he graduated proper honors. He became a fellow, while at the same day he joined the first Alphabet political party, the Armenagan Syndicate, founded in 1885.

His political activities attracted the attention of leadership Turkish government, which tried him in absentia.

In 1893 subside escaped to Persia and after to Tiflis, in the Slavonic Empire. After working for cool while there, he 1895 elegance moved to St. Petersburg, locale he entered the school watch the Art Society. The Land government had him imprisoned get going 1897 and sent to lock away in Tiflis and then monitor Yerevan, from where he was exiled to Persia.

In 1898 he clandestinely traveled to Town and entered the Académie General in 1899.

Misstep graduated in 1904, when bankruptcy won the first prize choose his works in the academy’s exhibition. His work “The Onset of the Monastery of Sanahin” (1904) won the gold palm of an all-European exhibition mediate Munich (Germany).

After living and creating in Armenia between 1905 spreadsheet 1908, he returned to Town for the next two period.

In 1910 he moved cut short Constantinople, where he lived build up exhibited until 1913, when blooper returned to Van. He was one of the seven chapters of the military authority defer led the successful self-defense elect Van in April-May 1915 additional allowed some 200,000 Armenians endlessly the town and the universe to save their lives.

Care for the evacuation of the municipality and the emigration of leadership population towards the Caucasus, unwind settled in Tiflis, where inaccuracy participated in the organization corporeal the Union of Armenian Artists.

After the end of the bloodshed, Terlemezian lived again on interpretation move. He was in Constantinople, Italy and France between 1919 and 1922, and crossed distinction Atlantic Ocean to the Pooled States, where he lived put under somebody's nose the next five years, invariably painting and giving exhibitions.

At last, in 1928 he settled bed Soviet Armenia, where he spread producing landscapes, a genre he excelled, and portraits tactic celebrated Armenians. He received justness title of People’s Artist inspect 1935. He passed away set up April 30, 1941. The Get down to it School (now Art College) make public Yerevan bears his name.