Grigor
Serpuhovich Khanjyan

(b. 11.29.1926, Yerevan).

Soviet painter and graphic artist, people's artist of the Armenian SSR (1967), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973).

He studied at the Yerevan Art Institute (1945-51) under A. Bekaryan, E. Isabekyan.

The author of mainly genre-landscape paintings and dramatic ones, built on sharp black-and-white contrasts of illustrations and graphic series on themes from the life of the Armenian people.

Works: "Happy Road" (1952, Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan), "Bread in the Mountains" (1972, Gallery of New Masters of the Dresden Gallery); a series of “Dates from the history of my people” (linocut, 1971); ill. to the novel by H. Abovyan "Wounds of Armenia" (ink, watercolor, 1958) and the poem by P. Sevak "The Silent Bell Tower" (ink, brush, 1963-1965; USSR State Prize, 1969) - Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, medals.