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Dmitry Arkadyevich Nalbandyan
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Dmitry Arkadyevich Nalbandyan – a Soviet Armenian painter, portrait master, and animator. He was born in Tiflis on September 15, 1906. From 1924 to 1929 he studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts under E. E. Lansere and E. M. Tatevosyan, after which he worked as an animator at the State Film Industry of Georgia (Goskino Prom of Georgia) and at the Odessa Film Studio. In 1931 he moved to Moscow.
He became known primarily as a master of the Soviet official/state portrait, although he also worked in the genres of landscape and still life. He painted portraits of many members of the Soviet party elite (including I. V. Stalin, N. S. Khrushchev, L. I. Brezhnev), for which he was called in art circles 'the First Brush of the Politburo'. Dmitry Arkadyevich Nalbandyan died on July 2, 1993, in Moscow of acute heart failure.
Date of birth
15 September 1906
Date of death
02 July 1993
Occupation
Artist