Panos Terlemezian

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Panos Poghosi Terlemezian (Armenian: Թէրլէմէզեան, March 3, 1865, Van - April 30, 1941, Yerevan) was an Armenian painter, awarded by the People's Artist of Armenian SSR title in 1935. One of the leaders of Van Resistance, 1915.

Terlemezian was born in Van, Western Armenia, Ottoman Empire. He finished an art society school in Saint-Petersburg, then studied at the Julianne Academie of Paris (1899-1904). After the Armenian Genocide he moved to Yerevan. Influenced by impressionism, he became the author of industrial pictures (1929-31, National Gallery of Armenia).