Leopold Dzadzamidze – Retrospective Exhibition

Leopold Dzadzamidze  – Retrospective Exhibition  (1922-1966)

On December 11, 2022, at 15:00, a retrospective exhibition of Leopold Dzadzamidze, Honored Artist of Georgia, dedicated to the artist’s 100th anniversary opens at the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery. The exhibition will include up to 80 works from the artist’s family, National Gallery, and Georgian Museum of Fine Arts collections.

Leopold Dzadzamidze is recognized as a prominent painter of Soviet Georgian visual art who firmly followed the traditions laid down by impressionist painters, which were widely accepted by Stalin period official Socialist Realism as well as the Post-Stalin era. In the 1950s and 1960s, most Georgian painters created impressionistic artworks as it was the only development of Western visual art that was accepted in the Soviet Union due to its narrative and figurative character. Leopold Dazadzamidze is one of the artists who chose impressionism as a leading tendency. Many of his works are painted in this style. Impressionism was certainly his primary artistic position through which he rejected the imposed style of Soviet ideology.

The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs of Georgia, National Gallery and Artist’s family.