Born in the village of Sakao, Kutaisi province of the Russian Empire. After graduating from the Gori educational institution, he studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary, attended higher education courses in Tbilisi. In 1925, Gordeziani studied at Vkhutemas (ВХУТЕМАС) in Moscow, and in 1928 he…
Mamia Malazonia’s works are outstanding for their versatility. He creates paintings and easel graphics, illustrations, and posters. He is also interested in set design for theatre, cinematography, animation, monumental-decorative and applied arts. “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” illustrated by him deserves particular attention, each…
Alexander Shervashidze is a stage designer, artist, book illustrator and designer, art critic and public figure. On his father’s side, the grandson of the last prince of Abkhazia, Georgy Shervashidze, and on his mother’s side, he is French. In St. Petersburg – a participant in…
Tamaz Varvaridze is the artist representing a group of clearly individual Georgian creative minds from the 70s of the 20th century. He is a well-known poster artist and the founder of the Georgian contemporary graphic school. The formal quest for conceptualism, characterized by the aesthetic…
Ilia Zdanevich (Zaum pen name Iliazd) was one of the prominent figures of the Georgian, Russian and French avant-garde movements; poet, writer, and publisher – the theorist of Russian Futurism and Dadaism; founder of the Tbilisi futuristic movement, discoverer of Niko Pirosmanashvili and his art…
Sophia Kintsurashvili – artist, book designer, and illustrator. Over the years, she has collaborated with various publishing houses and is an illustrator of several children’s books. She also made miniatures for the handwritten book “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin,” the embossed cover of which…
A painter and graphic artist, participant of the the Tbilisi avant-garde life in the 1910-1920s, Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikian was born in Tbilisi in an Armenian family and spent all his life there. In 1910 he graduated from the Tbilisi Nikolai Sklifosovsky school of painting and drawing…
Ketevan Matabeli graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1978. She is a distinguished artist, who createsgraphics, collages and assemblages, which are decorated with various materials and has original style. In 1984 she created a series of paintings “Old Tbilisi”. The illustrations for…
Futurist artist of Polish descent, one of the important figures of the Tbilisi Avant-garde, Zygmunt (Ziga) Waliszewski was born in 1897 in St. Petersburg. In 1908, his family moved to Georgia, Tbilisi, where he spent his childhood and youth. Here he graduated from the Nikolai…
Modernist artist (expressionist, futurist, constructivist); set and film production designer, painter, book illustrator – Irakli Gamrekeli, the founding-farther of the Georgian avant-garde scenography, was an unsurpassed connoisseur of set design techniques and the first Georgian artist who, according to the Futurist theatre principle, practiced a…
Lado Gudiashvili, the outstanding figure among Georgian modernists with his unique and distinguished style, represents a prolific artist whose carrier spans more than 60 years and comprises the periods of both the Tbilisi Modernism and Socialist Realism. He graduated from the Tiflis School of Painting…
Helene Akhvlediani – modernist artist: painter, book illustrator and stage designer – one of the founders of the urban landscape in Georgian painting. She was born in Telavi, Georgia, in 1901 and studied drawing at the art studio of Nikolai Sklifosovsky in Tbilisi. She traveled…