Murad Rafaelian Armenian School
Where was Charles Garabed Atamian educated from 1886 to 1892?
Charles Garabed Atamian Charles Garabed Atamian ( September 18 , 1872 – July 30 , 1947 ) was an Ottoman-born French painter of Armenian ethnicity . Biography . Garabed Atamian was the second of five children of Mıgırdiç Atamian , a goldsmith and musician , and Mary Afkerian . He completed his early education at the Mkhitaryan Armenian School in Pera , Istanbul . He then attended the local French school Lycée de Saint-Benoit . He continued his education at the Murad Rafaelian Armenian School in the San Lazzaro Island at Venice , Italy , where between 1887 and 1893 he took lessons from professors Antonio Ermolao Paoletti and Pietra . For a time he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts , but returned to Istanbul without graduating and worked at the Yildiz Porcelain Factory from 1894 to 1896 . He was appointed as the factorys chief designer . A number of his porcelain plates bearing his signature Atam are now exhibited at the Topkapi Palace . Plates which he created include portraits of Mahmud II , Selim and Abdul Mejid . He opened his first exhibition prior to the Hamidian massacres where Armenians in Istanbul were massacred en masse . As a result of the unfavorable political conditions of the period , his work failed to arouse interest and support . Due to the massacres against Armenians , Atamian sought refuge in Paris in 1897 . In Paris he illustrated nearly 150 books , including novels by such famous writers as Anatole France , Guy de Maupassant , Henri Bordeaux , and René Bazin and the French translation of B . Littons The Last Days of Pompei until World War I . Atamian found success creating artwork for commercial purposes including books and magazines . He worked for leading French newspapers and magazines such as LIllustration and Le Monde Illustre . He also created artwork for theatrical stage productions . His first oil painting was exhibited at Salon dAutomne in 1903 . From 1903 and onwards , he participated in various exhibitions with overwhelming success . Of particular note are his landscapes and portraits shown at the annual exhibitions of the National Society of Artists in Paris . In 1923 , he went for the summer to Saint-Gilles-sur-Vie in Vendée . He returned regularly until 1939 . Much of his work were developed at this summer residence and it is his paintings of its beach that are his works that consolidated his reputation as an artist . He became a permanent member of the society in 1927 . One-person exhibitions of his work were held in Paris at the Allard Gallery in 1921 and in the Georges Petit Gallery in 1923 and 1935 , in Brussels in 1925 , in Strasbourg in 1926 , at the Simonson Gallery in 1928 and 1930 , and at the Rosenthal Gallery in 1936 . His wife died in 1941 . That year , feeling the first symptoms of a contracted disease , he stopped painting while continuing to exhibit . His last known work is a self-portrait dated 1941 . He died in his workshop July 30 , 1947 . Many of his paintings exhibited in various cities of Europe , the United States , and Japan were reproduced as postcards . His granddaughter bequeathed 42 paintings of the artist to the municipality of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in 1995 . Exhibitions . During his lifetime . Note that he exhibited regularly at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1913 to 1945 and at the Salon des Independants from 1938 to 1945 . - 1903 Salon dAutomne ( Batz paintings ) , the Salon dAutomne was created and organized for the first time On October 31 , 1903 at the Petit Palais - 1918 : Marseille , Mouillot Gallery ( My mother ) - 1919 : The National ( paintings Agay ) - 1920 : The National ( Rhododendrons ) . There will exhibit until 1945 - March 1921 : Allard Gallery ( paintings of Saint-Jean-de-Luz , Villennes-sur-Seine ) - 1923 : Galerie Georges Petit - July 1923 : Strasbourg - 1924 : Gallery Pouillé-Lepoutre , Lyon - 1925 : French Artists in Brussels ( 60 paintings ) - 1925 : Devambez Gallery , Paris - May 1927 and October 1927 Galerie Georges Petit - August 1927 : Beaux-Arts de Calais - November 1928 : Simonson Gallery , 19 rue Caumartin , Paris ( paintings of Nice and Saint-Gilles ) - 1929 : Exhibition of Contemporary French Art , Tokyo , Osaka continued in 1930 Posthumous . - July–August 2006 : Saint-Hilaire-de-Monts , 24 works - December 2007 - March 2007 : Cagnes-sur-Mer , The Armenian painting in the nineteenth and twentieth century works on loan from the Musée dOrsay - February–June 2007 : Paris , Musée National de la Marine Exhibition Aivazovsky - September–October 2009 : Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie , Marcel Baudouin room - June 2010:-Lucs-sur-Boulogne , Sénéchal Gallery