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Rudolf Khachatryan

Ռուդոլֆ Խաչատրյան

Born 4 March 1937

Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

Died 15 August 2007 (aged 70)

Berlin, Germany

Known for Painting, drawing, sculpture

Awards People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1984)

Order of Friendship (1997)

Movses Khorenatsi Medal (2003)

Website rudolfart.com

Rudolf Lorisovich Khachatryan (Armenian: Ռուդոլֆ Խաչատրյան; 4 March 1937, Yerevan – 15 August 2007, Berlin) was a Soviet and Armenian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He was a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1984) and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2002).[1]

Biographyedit

1937 – Born on 4 March in Yerevan.[2]

1951 – Enters the P. Terlemezyan Art School in Yerevan (now the Panos Terlemezian College of Fine Arts); is expelled a few months later.[3][2]

1952 – Meets Yervand Kochar, an innovative artist and the creator of the principle of "painting in space" (peinture dans l'espace). Kochar becomes his friend and mentor and introduces him to the circle of the Armenian intelligentsia.[4][3]

1955 – Takes part in a republican exhibition for the first time.[2]

1957 – Bronze medal for graphic art at the 1st Youth Festival of Armenia.[5]

1959 – Third prize (bronze medal) at the art exhibition of the 7th World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna, for Portrait of a Student.[6]

1959–1961 – Admitted to the Union of Artists (candidate member 1959, full member 1961).[7]

1961 – The State Picture Gallery of Armenia acquires a series of his portraits of Armenian cultural figures.[2]

1962 – Collectors A. Chudnovsky, A. Kademyan, H. Buniatyan, A. Grigoryan and others begin to acquire his works.[2]

1965 – Silver medal at the 2nd Youth Festival of Armenia for the painting Youth.[8]

1969 – First prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Armenian SSR for his portrait of Komitas, made for the composer's centenary.[2]

1971–1989 – Lives and works in Moscow. Beginning of the "Classical Drawing" period. In 1971 the State Tretyakov Gallery acquires his Self-Portrait and Portrait of Seva.[2]

1977 – Awarded the title Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR.[9]

1980 – Begins drawing in sepia on boards primed with levkas (a chalk-and-glue gesso ground traditionally used for icons); beginning of the "Drawing on Levkas" period.[2]

1984 – Awarded the title People's Artist of the Armenian SSR.[10]

1986 – Gold medal at the Transcaucasian Biennale in Tbilisi.[2]

1989–1994 – Lives and works in London. Beginning of the "Metamorphoses" period (stages "Open Forms 1989–1990", "The Twofold Unity", "The Dual State", "Emergence of the Image", "Mythologems" and others). In 1990 he is elected an honorary member of the Anglo-Armenian Association.[2]

From 1994 – Lives and works in Moscow. Develops principles of spatial composition; beginning of the "Multidimensional Object" period.[2]

1995 – For the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, his painting Connection is presented on behalf of the Republic of Armenia as a gift to the United Nations Office at Geneva.[2][11]

1997 – Awarded the Order of Friendship by decree of the President of the Russian Federation.[12]

2002 – Elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts.[1]

2003 – Awarded the Movses Khorenatsi Medal by decree of the President of the Republic of Armenia;[13] awarded the gold medal of the European Franz Kafka Society.[2]

2007 – Awarded the Golden Cross, the highest award of the Union of Armenians of Russia.[14][15]

2007 – Dies on 15 August in Berlin following heart surgery.[2] He is buried in Yerevan at the Tokhmakh Cemetery.[2]

Awards and titlesedit

Bronze medal, 1st Youth Festival of Armenia (1957)[5]

Third prize, art exhibition of the 7th World Festival of Youth and Students, Vienna (1959)[6]

Silver medal, 2nd Youth Festival of Armenia (1965)[8]

Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR (30 December 1977)[9]

People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (20 July 1984)[10]

Order of Friendship (Russia) (30 May 1997)[12]

Movses Khorenatsi Medal (Armenia) (2003)[13]

Gold medal of the European Franz Kafka Society (2003)[2]

Golden Cross of the Union of Armenians of Russia (29 March 2007)[14]

Self-portraitsedit

Self-portrait, 1956. Sanguine

Self-portrait, 1969. Lithograph

Self-portrait, 1978. Sepia

Self-portrait, 1983. Sepia on levkas

Self-portrait, 1989. Sepia and charcoal on levkas

Solo exhibitionsedit

1978 – Union of Artists of the USSR, exhibition hall on Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow.[16]

1979 – Leningrad Union of Artists, Leningrad.

1979 – Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa.

1980 – House of Artists of Armenia, Yerevan.[17]

1983 – Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan.[18]

1984 – State Museum of Oriental Art (Lunin House), Moscow; retrospective exhibition.[19]

1985 – St. John's Recreation Center, Southfield, Michigan, and Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.[20]

1988 – House of Artists of Armenia, Yerevan.[21]

1990 – Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, London.

1993 – Metamorphoses, Central House of Artists, Moscow.[22]

1997 – Multidimensional Object, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.[23]

1997 – National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, marking the artist's 60th birthday.[24]

2002 – Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow.[25]

2004 – Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawings 1989–2004, New Hermitage Gallery, Moscow.[26]

2004 – Multidimensional Object, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.[27]

2008 – Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan: exhibition of works donated to the museum.

2012 – Reminiscences of the Book, Open Club, Moscow.

2017 – Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan.[28]

2023 – Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan.

2026 – Niko Gallery, Moscow.

Selected group exhibitionsedit

Source of the list: the artist's archive.[29]

1970 – From Urartu to the Present Day, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

1971 – Exhibition of artists of the Transcaucasian republics, Manege, Moscow.

1972 – Exhibition of Transcaucasian artists, Berlin.

1975 – Thirteen Artists from Armenia, Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna.

1977 – The Self-Portrait in Russian and Soviet Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

1978 – Armenian Colors '78, AGBU Gallery, New York; Contemporary Artists from Armenia, Lisbon; Galerie Drouant, Paris.

1979 – 24 Armenian Artists from the Soviet Union and France, London.

1986 – Armenian Colours '86, London.

1990 – Soviet and Irish Artists, Mansion House, Dublin.

1991 – Contemporary Armenian Art, New Academy Gallery, London.

Collectionsedit

The artist's works are held in the following collections:[30]

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow

State Historical Museum, Moscow

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

ART4 Museum, Moscow

F. M. Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum, Saint Petersburg

National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan

Sergei Parajanov Museum, Yerevan

Karen Demirchyan Museum, Yerevan

Harutyun Kalents Museum, Yerevan

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA[31]

Filmedit

Film The Infinity of Multidimensional Objects by Rudolf Khachatryan (2004).

Further readingedit

Encyclopedias and reference worksedit

Dznuni, D. Armenian Painters: A Short Dictionary. Yerevan: Luys, 1977. (in Russian)

"Khachatryan, Rudolf Lorisovich". Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan, 1979, p. 21. (in Armenian)

Vronskaya, J.; Chuguev, V. The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union. London, 1992.

Representing Humanity: The Art Collection of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Geneva: United Nations, 2001.

"Khachatryan, Rudolf Lorisovich". In: The Academy of Arts from Its Foundation to the Present Day: A Reference Dictionary. Moscow, 2011, p. 589. (in Russian)

Books and albumsedit

Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawing [album]. Foreword by T. Salakhov; essay by M. Lazarev. Moscow: Izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo, 1986. 125 pp. (in Russian)

Kagan, M. S. "Inner Light". In: Kagan, M. S. Art History and Art Criticism: Selected Essays. Saint Petersburg: Petropolis, 2001. (in Russian)

Igityan, H. "Rudolf Khachatryan". In: Igityan, H. From Hovnatanyan to Minas. Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2001.

Turchin, V. S. The 20th Century in the Mirror of the Collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow: Khudozhnik i kniga, 2003. (in Russian)

Angaladyan, R. Armenian Avant-Garde within Totalitarianism. Yerevan, 2006.

Kochar, Y. "The Barefoot Prince". In: Kochar, Y. I and You. Yerevan, 2007.

Igityan, H. Museum of Modern Art of Armenia. Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2012, pp. 162–165.

Vardanyan, R. E. The Art of Rudolf Khachatryan. PhD thesis abstract (art history). Yerevan: Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 2014.

Solo exhibition cataloguesedit

Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawing: exhibition catalogue. Foreword by T. Salakhov; essay by N. Stepanyan. Moscow: Union of Artists of the USSR, 1978. 38 pp. (in Russian)

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Essay by H. Igityan. Yerevan: House of Artists of Armenia, 1980. 66 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Texts by T. Salakhov, H. Igityan, F. Iskander, A. Tarkovsky. Yerevan: Museum of Modern Art, 1983. 26 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawing: exhibition catalogue. Essays by H. Igityan, M. Lazarev. Moscow: State Museum of Oriental Art, 1984. 50 pp. (in Russian)

Rudolph Khatchatrian. Drawings: exhibition catalogue. Text by H. Igityan. Southfield; Los Angeles, 1985. 40 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Essay by M. Kagan. Yerevan: House of Artists of Armenia, 1987. 63 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Metamorphoses: retrospective exhibition catalogue. Texts by B. Pankin, D. Sarabianov, L. Abrahamian. Moscow: Central House of Artists, 1993. 271 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue. Essay by D. Sarabianov. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 1997. 250 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue. Essay by L. Abrahamian. Yerevan: National Gallery of Armenia, 1997. 50 pp.

Rudolf Khatchatrian: anniversary exhibition catalogue, 2 vols. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts; Galart, 2002. Vol. 1: Drawing (foreword by T. Salakhov; texts by M. Roshchin, A. Tarkovsky; essay by V. Turchin), 130 pp. Vol. 2: Multidimensional Objects (foreword by Z. Tsereteli; texts by D. Sarabianov, H. Igityan; essay by L. Abrahamian), 210 pp.

Rudolf Khachatrian. Drawings 1989–2004. London – Moscow: exhibition catalogue. Essay by L. Adashevskaya. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts; New Hermitage Gallery, 2004. 84 pp.

Rudolf Khachatrian. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue, 2 parts. Interview by N. Allakhverdova; essays by L. Abrahamian, M. Klivar. Moscow: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Part 1: 74 pp.; part 2: 28 pp.

Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Texts by L. Abrahamian, V. Marabyan. Yerevan: Cafesjian Center for the Arts, 2017. 74 pp.

Articlesedit

"Artist from Yerevan Wins Third Prize in Vienna". Kommunist (Yerevan), 11 August 1959. (in Russian)

Zurabyan, T. "The Miracle of Life. Rudolf Khachatryan's Credo". The Armenian Reporter (New York), 22 June 1972.

Khachatryan, Sh. "Return – Ascent". Nor Kyank, 26 October 1973. (in Armenian)

Khachatryan, Sh. "A New Breath of Drawing". Sovetakan Arvest, 1974, no. 5. (in Armenian)

Tarkovsky, A. "The Monochrome Polyphony of Rudolf Khachatryan". Literaturnaya Armeniya, 1983, no. 5. (in Russian)

Tarkovsky, A. "Reflections". Selskaya Molodyozh, 1983, no. 8. (in Russian)

Roshchin, M. "The Road to Oneself". Sovetskaya Kultura, 17 May 1984. (in Russian)

Roshchin, M. "Rudolf Khachatryan". Kultura i Zhizn, 1984. (in Russian)

Yamshchikov, S. "A Vernissage on Suvorov Boulevard". Izvestia, 1984. (in Russian)

Igityan, H. "A Path Through Thorns". Garun, 1984, no. 8. (in Armenian)

"Rudolf Khatchatrian – Master of Drawing". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, 19 October 1985.

Muchnic, S. [Review of art exhibitions]. Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1985.

Kagan, M. "Inner Light". Novoye Vremya, 1986, no. 51. (in Russian)

Kagan, M. "The Art of Rudolf Khachatryan". Sovetakan Arvest, 1987, no. 1.

Fallon, B. "The Russians are Coming". The Irish Times, 10 March 1990.

Dunne, A. "Out in Open Again". The Sunday Tribune, 18 March 1990, p. B3.

Kuchkina, O. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Metamorphoses". Novoye Vremya, 1993, no. 50. (in Russian)

Rodionova, I. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Insights". Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 26 November 1993. (in Russian)

Drobyazko, E. "The Phantom Worlds of Rudolf Khachatryan". Novoye Vremya, 1997, no. 9. (in Russian)

Kuchkina, O. "Rudolf Khachatryan". Ogonyok, 1997, no. 16. (in Russian)

Abrahamian, L. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Multidimensional Objects". Kavkazsky Dom, 1998, no. 34–35. (in Russian)

Turchin, V. "A Breakthrough into... the 15th Century?". Kultura, April 2002. (in Russian)

Adashevskaya, L. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Multidimensional Object". Dekorativnoye Iskusstvo, 2003. (in Russian)

Prokhorov, V. "Rudolf Khachatryan – Multidimensional Object". Nash Izograf, 2004, no. 11. (in Russian)

Shevelyov, I. "Khachatryan's Centaur". Novoye Vremya, 2004, no. 43. (in Russian)

Lazarev, M. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Metamorphoses". Kultura, 2004. (in Russian)

Adashevskaya, L. "Rudolf Khachatryan's Multidimensional Objects". Dekorativnoye Iskusstvo, 2005. (in Russian)

Referencesedit

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"Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, certificate No. 113, 2002". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Biography". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Interview with Rudolf Khachatryan". Masis, 9 November 1985, pp. 1, 3.

Margaryan, A. "The Best Graphic Works". Sovetakan Hayastan (Soviet Armenia), 30 September 1980.

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"Laureate of the 1st Armenian Youth Festival (bronze medal for graphic art), 1957". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Artist from Yerevan Wins Third Prize in Vienna". Kommunist (Yerevan), 11 August 1959. (in Russian)

"Extract from minutes of the general meeting of the graphic section of the Union of Artists of Armenia, 20 April 1961". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Laureate of the 2nd Armenian Youth Festival (silver medal for painting), 1965". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Title 'Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR', 1977". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Title 'People's Artist of the Armenian SSR', 1984". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

Representing Humanity: The Art Collection of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Geneva: United Nations, 2001.

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"Order of Friendship (Russian Federation), award No. 2252, 1997". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Movses Khorenatsi Medal (Armenia), medal No. 216, 2003". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

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"Order of the Golden Cross – the highest award of the Union of Armenians of Russia, 2007". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

"Awards". Union of Armenians of Russia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawing: exhibition catalogue. Moscow: Union of Artists of the USSR, 1978. 38 pp. (in Russian)

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Yerevan: House of Artists of Armenia, 1980. 66 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Yerevan: Museum of Modern Art, 1983. 26 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Drawing: exhibition catalogue. Moscow: State Museum of Oriental Art, 1984. 50 pp. (in Russian)

Rudolph Khatchatrian. Drawings: exhibition catalogue. Southfield; Los Angeles, 1985. 40 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Yerevan: House of Artists of Armenia, 1987. 63 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Metamorphoses: retrospective exhibition catalogue. Moscow: Central House of Artists, 1993. 271 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 1997. 250 pp.

Rudolf Khachatryan. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue. Yerevan: National Gallery of Armenia, 1997. 50 pp.

Rudolf Khatchatrian: anniversary exhibition catalogue, 2 vols. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts; Galart, 2002.

Rudolf Khachatrian. Drawings 1989–2004. London – Moscow: exhibition catalogue. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts; New Hermitage Gallery, 2004. 84 pp.

Rudolf Khachatrian. Multidimensional Object: exhibition catalogue, 2 parts. Moscow: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Multidimensional Rudolf Khachatryan: exhibition catalogue. Yerevan: Cafesjian Center for the Arts, 2017. 74 pp.

"Exhibitions". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

"Works". Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

"Rudolf Khachatryan". Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Retrieved 6 October 2026.

External linksedit

Rudolf Khachatryan Digital Archive (rudolfart.com) – works, exhibitions, catalogues, publications and documents (English, Russian, Armenian).

Rudolf Khachatryan Heritage Foundation on YouTube – films and recordings from the archive.

Media related to Rudolf Khachatryan at Wikimedia Commons

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