Arsene Chabanian - Artist Info

About Arsene Chabanian

Name variants

Arsen Chabanyan, Arsen Shabanyan
  • Biography

    Chabanian was born in the village of Sunints in Karin (Erzrum, Western Armenia).

    He studied at the Murad Raphaelian College of Venice. Chabanian worked in Batumi afterwards, from where he had the opportunity to leave for Theodosia in 1890 to get acquainted with Aivazovsky and take his advice. During this period Chabanian also makes copies of Ayvazovsky’s paintings to perfectionate his knowledge of arts.

    One of the artist’s first independent paintings – a landscape depicting the port of Batumi, gains much public attention. Excited from this success Chabanian leaves for Paris and enters Julian Academy. Here his teachers were such prominent masters as Gustave Moreau, Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.

    1894 First exhi...

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