Biography of Vrtanes Akhikyan

Vrtanes Akhikyan (* 26. October 1873 in Van; † 21. February 1936 in Yerevan) was a painter. He was 62 years old. He studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. He worked at Վանի կեդրոնական վարժարան, St. Gayane Girls' School and Panos Terlemezyan State College of Fine Arts. He was awarded the Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR. He was buried at Գերեզման Վրթանես Ախիկյանի.