Sarkis Katchadourian Biography

Sarkis Katchadourian (1886-1947) was an Armenian artist.

Katchadourian was born on 9 August 1886, in Malatya in the family of Sarkis and Varduhi. He received his primary education in the Armenian Evangelical College of Malatya. 1902-1908 he studied at Sanasarian College in Karin (Erzurum). In 1908 he left for Constantinople. 1908-1911 he studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and graduated with a gold medal. He returned to Constantinople, where he taught painting at Sanasarian College in Karin. 1912-1914 he studied at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris and received a first-class diploma. He left for Geneva to study pedagogy and then improved it in Munich and Vienna. In 1914-1918 Katchadourian was in the Caucasus (Batumi, Yessentuki, Tiflis, Yerevan, Dilijan, Ijevan, Alexandrapol, Gharakilisa and Echmiadzin).

In 1915, he left for Persia, then Armenia. In 1916 he participated in forming the "Armenian Artists' Association" in Tiflis. In 1920 Katchadourian married Vardanoush Sarian. In 1921 he became a member-secretary in "Armenian Artists Union" in Tiflis. In 1921, the government of the Armenian SSR assigned the artist to draw sketches for stamps printed in Constantinople at Yesayan's personal publishing house.

1937-1941 he worked in India and made copies from the temples' frescos. In 1941 Katchadourian settled in New York City.

Katchadourian's works are held in Paris, London, Vienna, Brussels, New York and other museums, the USSR, the Georgian State Museum and the National Gallery of Armenia. In 1971 he exhibited in India and Katchadourian's widow, painter Vava Katchadourian, presented the copies of Ceylonese frescos to the State Gallery of Armenia.

Katchadourian died in Paris, 1947. His urn was buried in Artist's Pantheon of Yerevan on 28 December 1977.