SCULPTORS from Armenia

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Armenian Sculptors of all time. This list of famous Armenian Sculptors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Sergey Merkurov (1881 - 1952)

With an HPI of 49.27, Sergey Merkurov is the most famous Armenian Sculptor.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov (Russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Мерку́ров, 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1881 – 8 June 1952) was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR. He was the cousin of George Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher.

2. Ara Shiraz (1941 - 2014)

With an HPI of 47.29, Ara Shiraz is the 2nd most famous Armenian Sculptor.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Ara Shiraz (Armenian: Արա Շիրազ, June 8, 1941 – March 18, 2014) was an Armenian sculptor. His mother and father were the poets Silva Kaputikyan and Hovhannes Shiraz.