Haig Patigian

Biographical information

RolesReferee
SexMale
Full nameHaig•Patigian
Used nameHaig•Patigian
Other namesHayk Avetisi Badikyan, Հայկ Ավետիսի Բադիկյան
Born22 January 1876 in Van, Van (TUR)
Died19 September 1950 in San Francisco, California (USA)
Measurements173 cm
NOC United States

Biography

Haig Patigian was born Armenian in the former Ottoman Empire, where his parents worked as teachers in an American school. In 1891, he emigrated to the United States. There, he studied at the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco from 1899. In 1906/07, he worked with René Paul Marquet (1875-1939) in Paris and finally settled in San Francisco in 1908. He won several awards and was a member of the National Sculptural Society, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Société des Artistes Français. He was a member and twice president of the exclusive Bohemian Club.

Patigian created monuments and busts of American personalities, allegorical sculptures, and architectural sculptural ornaments in marble or bronze in the classical realist style. Among them were statues of General Pershing (1921) and Abraham Lincoln (1928), Friendship for the Olympic Country Club (1925), and a bronze bust of President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) for the White House.

Referee

Games Sport (Discipline) / Event NOC / Team Phase Unit Role As
1932 Summer Olympics Art Competitions USA Haig Patigian
Sculpturing, Statues, Open (Olympic) Final Standings Judge
Sculpturing, Medals And Reliefs, Open (Olympic) Final Standings Judge