Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan

Styl: Expressionism;

Místo: Tbilisi

Narozený: 1891

Smrt: 1966

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Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, Georgian: ალექსანდრე ბაჟბეუქ-მელიქიანი, Russian: Александр Александрович Бажбеук-Меликов; 11 September 1891 – 20 July 1966) was a Soviet Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor of Armenian origin. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1903, he began his studies at the School of Art and Sculpture of the Caucasus Society for the Encouragement for the Fine Arts. Here he made the acquaintance of a fellow student, Lado Gudiashvili. In 1910, he travelled to Moscow to begin training in the studio of the artist V. N. Meshkov. The following year, he joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1913, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, and spent the World War I years on the Odessa front. In 1917, he returned to Tbilisi and began his own independent artistic career. In 1919, he met his first wife, Nektar (née Khojamiryan), an architect with whom he had one daughter, Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan. From a later marriage to Lydia (née Meshkorudnikova), he had two more children: a son, Vazgen, and a daughter, Zuleika Bazhbeuk-Melikyan. Both daughters were to become artists in their own right.