HENRIK IGITYAN PASSED AWAY AGED 77
armradio.am
11.05.2009 15:41
Art critic, Honored Art Worker, Honorary Citizen of Yerevan Henrik
Igityan passed away today at the age of 77.
Henrik Igityan was born in Tbilisi. He graduated from the Pedagogical
University of Russian and Foreign Languages of Yerevan and the
Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Henrik Igityan worked at the National Art Gallery of Armenia. He
initiated the establishment of the Children’s Art Gallery in Yerevan,
the Republican Center for Artistic Education and the "Noyyan Tapan"
Union of Contemporary Armenian Artists.
He was awarded Movses Khorenatsi Medal of the Republic of Armenia,
Mhitar Gosh Medal of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and the Gold Medal
of the Los Angeles University.