Background
Yeghishe Tadevosyan was born on September 24, 1870, in Vagharshapat, Armavir Region, Armenia.
He studied at the Lazarian School, then entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Yeghishe Tadevosyan was born on September 24, 1870, in Vagharshapat, Armavir Region, Armenia.
Yeghishe studied at the Lazarian School, then entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Vasily Polenov was his teacher and friend.
Yeghishe Tadevosyan graduated in 1894 and began participating in exhibitions by the Peredvizhniki shortly after. In 1898, he traveled to Palestine with Polenov and would revisit the Middle East several times. In 1901, he moved from Moscow to Tbilisi and became an art teacher.
His early work had been influenced by Vardges Sureniants but, after this time, he began to employ impressionistic and pointillistic techniques. In 1916, he became the founder and head of the Union of Armenian Artists. Yeghishe Tadevosyan died on January 22 1936 in Tbilisi and is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan. A street in Yerevan and an Art school in Etchmiadzin are named after him.
Yeghishe Tadevosyan adhered to the artistic traditions of Realism and Impressionism.
In 1916, Yeghishe became the founder and head of the Union of Armenian Artists.