Grigor Khanjyan was a Soviet and Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
10 Facts About Grigor Khanjyan
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Grigor Khanjyan is most notable for his illustrations of historical novels and poems, and murals and tapestries on historical topics.
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Grigor Khanjyan was the fourth and last child of Sebuh and Verginie - genocide survivors from Yerznka, who settled in Armenia in 1920.
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Grigor Khanjyan mentioned on several occasions that a doctor had advised his mother, already in relatively advanced age, to get pregnant in order to avoid some health problems and that is the reason for him to be conceived.
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Panos Terlemezian - who was a friend of Sebuh Khanjyan - first discovered art talent in little Grigor.
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In 1945, Grigor Khanjyan finished the coursework at Terlemezian Art College in Yerevan and at the age of 19 entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan.
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At the Academy Grigor Khanjyan mostly studied under the guidance of the prolific thematic-compositional artist Eduard Isabekyan whose influence was strong on the style of Grigor Khanjyan's works in early years.
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Grigor Khanjyan never joined the Communist Party and had opted for nationalist instead of Soviet very often.
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In 1965, for the All-Soviet Exhibition of Graphic Art Grigor Khanjyan sent his illustrations of Paruyr Sevak's The Unsilenceable Belfry - a story of Armenian genocide.
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In 1990, Grigor Khanjyan accepted the invitation from the Academy of Sciences of Armenia to join it as a full member in the field of Art History.