Background
Sargsyan was born in the Armenian village of Makri, near Constantinople.
Sargsyan was born in the Armenian village of Makri, near Constantinople.
He finished the local Armenian school, then Constantinople Art School and studied under the famed Ottoman Armenian sculptor Yervant Voskan.
He then moved to Athens, Greece in 1920. He studied sculpture in Rome and Vienna till 1925. Sargsyan excelled at Vienna School of Masters.
In 1925, Ara Sargsyan moved to Soviet Armenia.
Most recognizable works by Ara Sargsyan in Yerevan are the monuments of Mother Armenia, Hovhannes Tumanyan and Alexander Spendiarian. Sarksyan"s childhood home in Yerevan has been converted into a Museum.
