Prominent Soviet Armenian sculptor Nikoghayos Nikoghosyan dies at 99
Famous Armenian sculptor, painter, People’s Artist of the Soviet Union, Nikoghayos Nikoghosyan passed away on Friday at the age of 99, the Russian Academy of Fine Arts said in a statement.
Born on 2 December 1918 in Armenia, Nikoghosyan graduated from the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts in 1947. He moved to live and work in Russia since 1944.
An academician of Russian Academy of Arts, he is one of the prominent figures of the modern Armenian monumental statuary.
He created the sculptural portraits of such prominent people as Armenian writer Avetik Isahakyan, composer Aram Khachaturian, Russian pianist Konstantin Igumnov and others. The monuments to Mikael Nalbandian (Yerevan), Avetik Isahakyan (Gyumri) and Yeghishe Charents (Yerevan) are among the artist’s monumental and monumental-decorative sculptures.
Around 30 memorial plaques at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow and other tombstone sculptures are also among Nikoghosyan’s most valuable works.