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Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1960), member of the USSR Academy of Fine Arts (1947), president of the Artists' Union of Soviet Armenia (1945-1951), the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.
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culture · Armenian painter · painter · politician · illustrator · theatre designer · graphic artist · also Martiros Saryan, Martiros Sergeevich Sarian, Martiros Sergeevich Saryan, Martiros Sergeyevich Sarian, Martiros Sar'yan, Martiros Sergeevič Sar'jan
Born 16 February 1880 · Died 5 May 1972 · Q718409
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: MARTIROS SARYAN (ARMENIAN 1880-1972), 1931
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MutualArt.com: MARTIROS SARYAN (ARMENIAN 1880-1972), 1960
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2015· 1 entry
Armenpress: Martiros Saryan portrayed a different Armenia, today marks the painter’s birthday
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2013· 1 entry
Armenpress: "Retro": from Martiros Saryan's medal to new discoveries
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2011· 1 entry
News: Martiros Saryan’s canvases at exhibition in Groningen
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2010· 1 entry
PanARMENIAN.Net: Yerevan celebrates 130th birth anniversary of Armenian painter Martiros Saryan
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1972· 1 entry
Died 1972-05-05.
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1970).
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1966· 1 entry
Saryan signed a petition supporting the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Soviet Armenia, alongside Yervand Kochar, Paruyr Sevak, Hamo Sahyan, and other major Armenian cultural figures
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1965).
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Awarded Armenian SSR State Prize (1965).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Gyumri (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded People's Painter of the USSR (1960).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1950).
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1945· 3 entries
Won Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Career landmark: chairperson (1945–1951).
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1944· 1 entry
Won Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" (1944).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1941).
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1939).
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Saryan designed the set and costumes for "Almast" by Alexander Spendiaryan, the first opera staged in Armenia
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1936).
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1926).
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1917· 1 entry
Went with his family to live in Russia
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1916· 2 entries
When he traveled to Tbilisi and met his wife, he also helped organize the Society of Armenian Artists
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Spendiaryan, Saryan, and Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan began to work on the opera
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1915· 1 entry
Went to Echmiadzin again to help refugees who had fled from the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire
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1913· 1 entry
Spent time in Iran, visiting Bandar-e-Anzeli, Rasht, Qazvin and Tehran
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1911· 1 entry
Went to Alexandria (Egypt) and spent time in Cairo, Giza, Memphis, and Luxor
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1910· 1 entry
Went to Constantinople (current Istanbul) and lived with an Armenian family in Bera (current Beyoğlu)
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1903· 2 entries
Studied at Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts (1897–1903).
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After he graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, he traveled to Armenia again, visiting Ani, Goshavank, Haghpat, Sanahin, and Gharakilisa (now Vanadzor), before also traveling to Georgi
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1901· 1 entry
Visiting Lori, Shirak, Echmiadzin, Haghpat, Sanahin, Yerevan and Sevan
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1880· 2 entries
Born 1880-02-16.
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“s one and only romantic partner. 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. He was buried in Yerevan at the Pantheon next to Komitas Vardapet. His son Ghazaros (Lazarus) Saryan was a composer and educator. His great-granddaughter Mariam Petrosyan is also a painter, as well as a cartoonist and award-winning novelist. Travels and Inspirations Saryan”
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