Arsen
Arshakovich Avanesyan

Azerbaijan • born in 1906

Biography and information

Thesis in the CVC - sketches of suits and scenery and layouts to the Opera "Quiet flows the don", a "satisfactory" rating. The training took place at the faculty of painting, awarded the title of artist of theatrical paintings.

A member of the Union of artists of the USSR

Through the hands of artist and educator Arsen Avanesyan passed by all the major painters of Azerbaijan. He was at the forefront of the Republican school of scenography. Has issued about 200 theatrical productions! Instead of plein air Avanesyan liked to come with a sketchbook at the favorite Boulevard, where even homonymie boys did not distract him from his work...

Majestic gait, as if can not get out of role, walked on the waterfront of Baku Bay to the painfully familiar man. Lush moustache, piercing gaze, thick hair, slicked back. Passers-by opened his mouth in amazement and almost stretched on the rack "quietly"! But it was only a double of Stalin, Georgi Sahakyan. Engineer, became a "one role". 35 times (!) he played the leader of all peoples...

(From the article: "the seaside Boulevard, or the "Armenian trace" in Baku" Alexander Geronian)