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Rudolf Khachatryan
Ռուդոլֆ Խաչատրյան
Born(1937-03-04)4 March 1937
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Died15 August 2007(2007-08-15) (aged 70)
Berlin, Germany
Known forDrawing, painting, sculpture
AwardsPeople's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1984)
Order of Friendship (1997)
Movses Khorenatsi Medal (2003)
Websiterudolfart.com

Rudolf Lorisovich Khachatryan (Template:Lang-hy; Russian: Рудольф Лорисович Хачатрян; also spelled Khachatrian or Khatchatrian; 4 March 1937 – 15 August 2007) was an Armenian painter, graphic artist and sculptor who worked in Yerevan, Moscow and London. He was named a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1984 and elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2002.[1]

Early life

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Khachatryan was born in Yerevan. He briefly studied at the Terlemezian Art School but left within months. As a teenager he came into contact with the sculptor and painter Yervand Kochar, who became his mentor and introduced him to the Armenian intelligentsia of the time.[1] He first exhibited in a republican exhibition in 1955 and was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1960.[1]

Career

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In the early 1960s Khachatryan belonged to the generation of young Armenian artists, alongside Minas Avetisyan, who renewed the art of Soviet Armenia. In 1961 the State Picture Gallery of Armenia (now the National Gallery of Armenia) acquired his series of portraits of Armenian cultural figures.[1] His 1969 portrait of the composer Komitas received the first prize of the Armenian Ministry of Culture.[1]

In 1971 he moved to Moscow and turned almost entirely to drawing; his drawings shown at the exhibition Artists of Transcaucasia provoked a debate in the art press, and the Tretyakov Gallery acquired two of them.[1][2] In 1980 he developed a technique of drawing in sepia on wooden panels primed with levkas (gesso).[1] His retrospective opened the new building of the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow in 1984.[3][4] In 1985 he had solo exhibitions in Southfield, Michigan, and Los Angeles.[5][6]

From 1989 to 1994 he lived and worked in London, where he began the series Metamorphoses; in 1990 he exhibited at Lambeth Palace.[1] His work was reviewed in Ireland in 1990.[7][8] A retrospective, Metamorphoses, was held at the Central House of Artists in Moscow in 1993.[9][10]

After returning to Moscow in 1994 he developed spatial compositions he called Multidimensional Objects, shown at the Tretyakov Gallery and the National Gallery of Armenia in 1997, at the Russian Academy of Arts in 2002 and at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2004.[11] In 1995 his painting Connection was presented to the United Nations Office at Geneva on behalf of the Republic of Armenia for the organisation's 50th anniversary.[1]

He died in a Berlin clinic after heart surgery on 15 August 2007 and was buried at the Yerevan City Pantheon.[1]

Self-portraits

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Selected solo exhibitions

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  • 1978 – Union of Artists of the USSR, Moscow
  • 1983 – Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan
  • 1984 – State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
  • 1985 – Southfield, Michigan, and Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 1990 – Lambeth Palace, London
  • 1993 – Metamorphoses, Central House of Artists, Moscow[9]
  • 1997 – Multidimensional Object, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan
  • 2002 – Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
  • 2004 – Drawings 1989–2004, New Hermitage Gallery, Moscow[12]; Multidimensional Object, Moscow Museum of Modern Art[11]
  • 2017 – Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan

Collections

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His works are held by the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum, the State Museum of Oriental Art, the State Historical Museum and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow; the National Gallery of Armenia, the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan and the Sergei Parajanov Museum in Yerevan; the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey; and the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Southfield, Michigan.[13]

Honours

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Biography". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
  2. ↑ "Your Opinion?". Tvorchestvo (in Russian) (1). 1972.
  3. ↑ Yamshchikov, Savely (1984). "Vernissage on Suvorovsky Boulevard". Izvestia (in Russian).
  4. ↑ Roshchin, Mikhail (17 May 1984). "The Road to Oneself". Sovetskaya Kultura (in Russian).
  5. ↑ "Rudolf Khatchatrian – Master of Drawing". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. 19 October 1985.
  6. ↑ Muchnic, Suzanne (15 November 1985). "Review of art exhibitions". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ↑ Fallon, Brian (10 March 1990). "The Russians are coming". The Irish Times.
  8. ↑ Dunne, Aidan (18 March 1990). "Out in open again". The Sunday Tribune. p. B3.
  9. 1 2 Rudolf Khatchatrian. Metamorphoses (Exhibition catalogue). Moscow: Central House of Artists. 1993.
  10. ↑ Kuchkina, Olga (1993). "Rudolf Khachatryan's Metamorphoses". New Times (in Russian). No. 50.
  11. 1 2 Rudolf Khachatrian. Multidimensional Object (Exhibition catalogue, 2 parts). Moscow: Moscow Museum of Modern Art. 2004 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ↑ Rudolf Khachatrian. Drawings 1989–2004. London – Moscow (Exhibition catalogue). Moscow: New Hermitage Gallery. 2004 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ "Works". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
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