Yervand Kochar

Yervand Kochar was born in Tbilisi. He graduated from Nersisyan School in Tbilisi in 1918. From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the Arts School of the Caucasus Association for Promotion of Fine Arts and at the State Free Art Studio of Moscow. After completing his studies in 1919, he returned to Tbilisi. In 1921 he taught at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1936 he returned to Armenia and was admitted to the Artists’ Union of Armenia. From 1944 to 1945 he taught painting at Theatrical and Polytechnic Institutes in Yerevan. In 1948 he received a copyright certificate from USSR’s Committee for Inventions and Discoveries at the Council of Ministers for the invention of a new method for making wax paints. He was awarded the People's Artist of Armenia title in 1965 and of the Soviet Union in 1976. He died in Yerevan.