Yeghishe Tadevosyan

Yeghishe Martirosi Tadevosyan (; 24 September 1870 – 22 January 1936) was a Soviet Armenian painter, associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva movements. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings. He graduated in 1894 and participated in an exhibition of the Peredvizhniki in the same year.

In 1898, he travelled 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 one of the four founders and the elected head of the Union of Armenian Artists.

Death and legacy Yeghishe Tadevosyan died on 22 January 1936 in Tbilisi and is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan.

Tadevosyan's name is used for a street in Yerevan, and he is the namesake of an art school in Etchmiadzin (now Vagharshapat). In 2015, a bust of Tadevosyan's head was unveiled in the Shengavit District in Yerevan.

In 2015 to 2016, the National Gallery of Armenia held a retrospective of his work.

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