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Rudolf Khachatryan \| Dodge Collection Сохранённый текст, снято 2026-10-06. Оригинал: https://dodge.zimmerli.rutgers.edu/artists/rudolf-khachatryan Rudolf Khachatryan \| Dodge Collection Skip to main content Rutgers.edu Zimmerli Art Museum Contact Visit About Artists Exhibitions Research Rudolf Khachatryan 1937 – Yerevan (Armenia) \| 2007 – Berlin (Germany). Worked in Yerevan (Armenia), Moscow (Russia), London (UK), and Berlin (Germany) Kiss, 1969. Lithograph on paper, 53 × 42.2 cm (20 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.). Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. D08573 Untitled, 1962. Ink on paper, 38.1 × 25 cm (15 × 9 13/16 in.). Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. D03436 All Works by the Artist A member of the 1960s generation of Armenian artists, Rudolf Khachatryan intertwined the classical and the modern. His creative journey began with academic drawing studies featuring chiaroscuro modeling, and his oeuvre would encompass a broad spectrum of forms and means of expression: traditional and modernist approaches to drawing and painting, three-dimensional objects, and experimentation with the plane and space. Khachatryan had a difficult childhood, taking place against the backdrop of World War II and the postwar years. His artistic talents revealed themselves at the tender age of three. Although lacking any systematic general or art education, early on he began depicting motifs from the world around him in an accurate and precise manner. Khachatryan enrolled in art school in Yerevan in 1951, but was expelled only a few months later for disagreeing with its pedagogy. The following year, however, marked the start of Khachatryan’s real education when he first visited the Yerevan studio of Yervand Kochar, a luminary of the Armenian and international avant-gardes and guru of the Armenian modernists. The encounter was nothing less than revelatory for the young artist, helping determine his future path. Kochar would go on to become Khachatryan’s mentor and lifelong friend. Three years later, the eighteen-year-old Khachatryan took part in his first all-republican exhibition. In 1960, he joined the Artists’ Union of the USSR, and, starting in the early 1960s, his work began to be acquired by the State Gallery of Armenia (now the National Gallery of Armenia) as well as by various art collectors. Khachatryan’s artistic development was marked by a series of phases, each different from the next. The 1960s, when he was living and working in Yerevan, saw the artist absorbing an eclectic array of influences. On the one hand, he devoted himself to studying the world’s artistic heritage, above all the old masters of the Renaissance. On the MORE Share Links Rudolf Khachatryan and Reflections on Art: An Interview with Art Historian Ripsime Vardanyan. Armenian Museum in Moscow Film prepared for the exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2004, 30:02, uploaded by Vsevolod Khachatryan Tags 1960s Armenia Drawing Lithography Modernism Shestidesyatniki / shistdesiatnyky Yerevan Selected Exhibitions 1978 Artists’ Union of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad, USSR (solo) 1979 Artists’ Union of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad, USSR (solo) 1980 Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (solo) 1980 Outstanding Russian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Hermitage Gallery, London, UK 1983 Yerevan Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia (solo) 1984 State Museum of Oriental Arts, Moscow, USSR (solo) 1988 Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (solo) 1990 Residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, London, UK (solo) 1997 National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (solo) 1997 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo) 2008 Posthumous solo exhibition, Yerevan Modern Art Museum, Yerevan, Armenia 2017 The Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan: Exhibition Dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of the Celebrated Armenian Artist, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia Selected Publications Igityan, Henrik. Armenian Palette. XX Century. Yerevan: Tigran Metz, 2004. Igityan, Henrik. Modern Art Museum of Armenia. Yerevan: Tigran Metz, 2012. Igityan, Henrik. Rudolf Khachatryan. Catalogue. Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1984 (in Russian). Kuchkina, Olga. “Rudolf Khachatryan: ‘Artists of all centuries have tried to convey time in art. I succeeded.’” Cocktail, no. 32 (24), June 21-27, 1997. Lazarev, Mikhail, ed. Rudolf Khatchatrian. Drawings. Moscow: Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo, 1986. Modern Armenian Painting. Introduction by Henrik Igityan. Catalogue. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Neogravura, 1978. Tarkovsky, Arseny. “Monochrome Polyphony of Rudolf Khachatryan.” In Literaturnaya Armenia [Literary Armenia], no. 5 (1983): 62. Yesayants, Armen, ed. Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan. Catalogue. Introduction by Levon Abrahamian. Yerevan: Cafesjian Center for the Arts, 2017. 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1937 – Yerevan (Armenia) | 2007 – Berlin (Germany). Worked in Yerevan (Armenia), Moscow (Russia), London (UK), and Berlin (Germany)

Kiss, 1969. Lithograph on paper, 53 × 42.2 cm (20 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.). Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. D08573

Untitled, 1962. Ink on paper, 38.1 × 25 cm (15 × 9 13/16 in.). Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. D03436

All Works by the Artist

A member of the 1960s generation of Armenian artists, Rudolf Khachatryan intertwined the classical and the modern. His creative journey began with academic drawing studies featuring chiaroscuro modeling, and his oeuvre would encompass a broad spectrum of forms and means of expression: traditional and modernist approaches to drawing and painting, three-dimensional objects, and experimentation with the plane and space.

Khachatryan had a difficult childhood, taking place against the backdrop of World War II and the postwar years. His artistic talents revealed themselves at the tender age of three. Although lacking any systematic general or art education, early on he began depicting motifs from the world around him in an accurate and precise manner. Khachatryan enrolled in art school in Yerevan in 1951, but was expelled only a few months later for disagreeing with its pedagogy.

The following year, however, marked the start of Khachatryan’s real education when he first visited the Yerevan studio of Yervand Kochar, a luminary of the Armenian and international avant-gardes and guru of the Armenian modernists. The encounter was nothing less than revelatory for the young artist, helping determine his future path. Kochar would go on to become Khachatryan’s mentor and lifelong friend.

Three years later, the eighteen-year-old Khachatryan took part in his first all-republican exhibition. In 1960, he joined the Artists’ Union of the USSR, and, starting in the early 1960s, his work began to be acquired by the State Gallery of Armenia (now the National Gallery of Armenia) as well as by various art collectors.

Khachatryan’s artistic development was marked by a series of phases, each different from the next. The 1960s, when he was living and working in Yerevan, saw the artist absorbing an eclectic array of influences. On the one hand, he devoted himself to studying the world’s artistic heritage, above all the old masters of the Renaissance. On the

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Rudolf Khachatryan and Reflections on Art: An Interview with Art Historian Ripsime Vardanyan. Armenian Museum in Moscow

Film prepared for the exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2004, 30:02, uploaded by Vsevolod Khachatryan