10 Facts About Hakob Kojoyan

Hakob Kojoyan mostly worked in the genres of painting and applied art.

Hakob Kojoyan assisted Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian in creating the coat of arms for the First Republic of Armenia.

Hakob Kojoyan was born in 1883 in Akhaltsikhe in the family of goldsmith.

In 1890 his family moved to Vladikavkaz, where little Hakob attended the Craftsmen Secondary School.

In 1921 Hakob Kojoyan went to Tabriz, where the artist studied the culture of the ancient eastern country of Persia, and began to take an active part in the cultural life of the local Armenian community.

Hakob Kojoyan gave lectures at the Art Studio organized by Alexander Tamanian.

In 1939 Hakob Kojoyan participated in a ten-day exhibition of Armenian art in Moscow and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, meanwhile he received the title of People's Artist of the Republic.

In 1945 with the endeavours of Ara Sargsyan, the Institute of Fine Arts was opened in Yerevan with the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture, where Hakob Kojoyan worked as a professor.

The exhibition was still on in Saint Petersburg, when Hakob Kojoyan suddenly fell ill and died in Yerevan.

Secondary School of Fine Arts named after Hakob Kojoyan was opened in Yerevan in 1963.