Jean Jansem, (1920-2013)
Les âges de la vie/ The ages of life, c. 1999
Oil on canvas
59 1/16 x 78 3/4 in
Private collection
Hovhannes "Jean"
Semerdjian (9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian
painter. Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum
collections throughout France, Japan and the United States. A Foreign member of
the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002).
He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in
1953 and by the Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2003. The President of
Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his “reinforcement of
Armenian-French cultural ties.”
Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa,
Turkey. In 1922, his family fled to Greece. He spent his childhood in
Thessaloniki. They arrived to Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France in
1931 when he was 11 and that is when he begin to paint. The first professional
schools for Jansem became free academies of Montparnasse (1934-1936). He
studied in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. Jansem also studied at the Sabatie
studio for a year. Early paintings by Jansem were mainly to national issues. He
had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome,
Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc. Hovhannes Semerdjian was elected the President
of the Young Artists' Saloon in 1956.
Jansem’s primary sources of inspiration were Goya and
Brueghel. His mother and his children were the main heroes in his earlier
works. Jansem was characterized as a miserablist, an artist of unfortunate
people.
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