Ervand kochar museum of modern

  • The museum is an important center for the study and promotion of the historical avant-garde in the region.
  • Ervand Kochar Museum is a unique research and propaganda center of historic Avant-garde in the region.
  • Ervand Kochar Museum Kochar is one of the most known armenian painters and sculptor of the twentieth century, who is still modern even for our time.
  • Ervand Kochar Museum

    Artist and sculptor Ervand Kochar's creative heritage fryst vatten one of the most interesting phenomena of the 20th century modern art. Kochar brought the spirit of modern thinking, new ideas and innovative creative approaches into Armenian art. Ervand Kochar museum was opened in 1984 on the base of Maestro's studio. It is only here and at the Pompidou Center in Paris that the miracle of Kocharian art "Painting in Space" fryst vatten exhibited. Unique documents and valuable facts of his connections with the leaders of Avant-garde are also displayed.

    Open:

    Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00

    Sun: 11:00 - 16:00


    Admission:1 600 AMDper person
    Guide fee:1-15persons5 000 AMD
    16-31persons10 000 AMD
    32-50persons15 000 AMD

    Yervand Kochar

    Armenian sculptor and artist

    Yervand Kochar

    Born(1899-06-15)June 15, 1899

    Tiflis, Russian Empire

    DiedJanuary 22, 1979(1979-01-22) (aged 79)

    Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

    Resting placeKomitas Pantheon
    NationalityArmenian
    Other namesErvand Kochar, Yervand Kocharyan
    EducationNersisian School Arts School of the Caucasus Association for Promotion of Fine Arts
    Known forPainting, sculpture, drawing, inventing, writing
    MovementFuturism, cubism, surrealism, Impressionism, avant-garde
    SpouseVardeni Kochar (m. 1923, d.1928)

    Meline Kochar (m. 1929-1936, d. 1967)

    Manik Mkrtchyan-Kochar (m. 1944-1979, d.1984)
    Children2

    Yervand "Kochar" Kocharyan, also known as Ervand Kochar (Armenian: Երվանդ Սիմոնի "Քոչար" Քոչարյան; 1899 – 1979) was a prominent sculptor and modern artist of the twentieth century and a founder of Painting in Space art movement. The Ervand Kochar Museum is located in Ye

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    Ervand Kochar Museum is an important research and propaganda center of historic Avant-garde in the region. Artist and sculptor Ervand Kochar's (1899-1979) creative heritage is one of the most interesting phenomena of the 20th century modern art. Kochar in Paris, between 1923 and 1936 participated energetically in the creation of the historical Avant-garde art. In France Kochar founded a new plastic form of expression Painting in Space which is one of the greatest achievements of Modern Art in the opinion of the prominent art theorists. In 1936 Kochar signed the Manifeste Dimensioniste which was the herald of the newest aesthetic principles of the time. Just the list of endorsements on the document (Calder, Arp, Kandinsky, Delaunay, Duchamp, Moholy-Nagy and others) reveals not only the whole spectrum of elite avant-garde, but also Kochar’s role and place during this time and amongst the pioneers. In 1936 he immigrated to Soviet Armenia and appeared on this sid

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