Léon Arthur Tutundjian [SEP] place of death
Léon Arthur Tutundjian
Léon Arthur Tutundjian (; 1905, Amasya, Ottoman Empire – December 1968, Paris, France) was an Armenian painter who reached fame in France.
Life.
Leon (Levon) Tutundjian was born in Amasya, in Sivas Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire in 1905. Tutundjian came from a relatively wealthy and educated family-his father and grandfather were teachers. He went to good schools, learned to speak French, and dreamed of moving to Paris. Unfortunately, the family moved often so his father
, the term ‘abstract’ as applied to art had negative connotations; in its place he preferred the more positive term ‘concrete’. Van Doesburg was eventually joined by Otto G. Carlsund, Léon Arthur Tutundjian, Jean Hélion and his fellow lodger, the typographer Marcel Wantz (1911-79), who soon left to take up a political career. In May 1930 they published a single issue of their own French-language magazine, "Revue Art Concret", which featured a joint manifesto, positioning them as the