Ervand kochar museum of modern
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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.
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Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00
Sun: 11:00 - 16:00
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Yervand Kochar
Armenian sculptor and artist
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Born | (1899-06-15)June 15, 1899 Tiflis, Russian Empire |
Died | January 22, 1979(1979-01-22) (aged 79) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Komitas Pantheon |
Nationality | Armenian |
Other names | Ervand Kochar, Yervand Kocharyan |
Education | Nersisian School Arts School of the Caucasus Association for Promotion of Fine Arts |
Known for | Painting, sculpture, drawing, inventing, writing |
Movement | Futurism, cubism, surrealism, Impressionism, avant-garde |
Spouse | Vardeni Kochar (m. 1923, d.1928) Meline Kochar (m. 1929-1936, d. 1967) Manik Mkrtchyan-Kochar (m. 1944-1979, d.1984) |
Children | 2 |
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