Born in 1954, Lebanese – German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and publisher from Armenian decent.
Emmanuel's talents and ambition earned him an admission to take classes at the Art Academy of Paris in 1972 followed by more advanced courses at the Michael-Angelo Academy in Florence in 1973 after which he obtained a scholarship and attended the Hochshule fur Bildende kunst Fine Arts Academy in Dresden- Germany with the collaboration of professors Gerhard Kettner , Siegfried Klotz, Juan Leon and A.R.Penk. After graduating in 1979 Emmanuel specialized in Artistic Anatomy and obtained a PHD in 1980.
Over the last 28 years Emmanuel has had over 30 solo and collective art shows around the world and has published over 8 books of art including his father‘s Paul Guiragossian’s works in 1982 and Iranian artist Marcos Grigorian’s works in the late 80’s and founded the Emmagoss Art galleries in Beirut (1990), the Paul Guiragossian Museum of contemporary Art and Emmagoss Dresden (2007). He has consulted and collaborated with several art foundations in Lebanon and Jordan to encourage building museums for contemporary arts in the region.
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