About Koryun Nahapetyan
Lived 1926 – 1999 (aged 73). Koryun Nahapetyan was a Russian painter.
Koryun Nahapetyan (; ; 1926 in Leninakan – 1999 in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian painter-nonconformist, sociologist, philosopher and public activist, a participant of the Bulldozer Exhibition. He was a member of UNESCO International Federation of Painters.
Biography Nahapetyan was born in Hatsik village, near Leninakan, Soviet Armenia. In 1950 he moved to Moscow and worked there in the ZiL factory.
Nahapetyan finished the art school in Leninakan and Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, entered the post-graduate courses at the VNIITE. In 1978 he founded the "20 Moscow painters" movement.
In 1988 he became one of the founders of Karabakh Committee of Moscow. In 1999 Nahapetyan was killed in his studio.
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Who was Koryun Nahapetyan?
Russian artist (1926-1999)
When was Koryun Nahapetyan born?
Koryun Nahapetyan was born on 16 March 1926 in Hatsik.
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Koryun Nahapetyan died on 25 July 1999 in Moscow.
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Koryun Nahapetyan was a painter.
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Koryun Nahapetyan was Russian.
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