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    GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE FORMED ON OCCASION OF HENRIK IGITYAN DEATH

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    11.05.2009 19:11 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A governmental committee was formed on occasion of
    Henrik Igityan's death. The committee will be headed by Prime Minister
    Tigran Sargsyan, reported the information center of the RA government.

    Armenian art critic and founder of the National Center of Aesthetics
    Henrik Igityan died at 77 after a lingering disease on May 10.

    Henrik Igityan was a man who saved art and helped young talents to
    survive in the years of Soviet reaction. Particularly, thanks to his
    persistency in 1972 the museum of the contemporary art was opened in
    Yerevan, while the art vanguard of 20-ies and 30-ies was hidden in
    Moscow's storerooms.

    Graduate of the Yerevan Institute of foreign languages (1951-1956)
    and thereinafter Leningrad Institute of Architecture and Sculpture
    (1958--1963), he worked and then headed Armenia's National Art Gallery,
    he was a deputy of the Supreme Court of Armenian SSR and Supreme Court
    of the USSR (1989-1991).Till his very last days, he directed the Museum
    of Contemporary Art and the National center of aesthetics of Armenia.
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