Otar Jishkariani is an Honored Artist of Georgia and one of the prominent representatives of the 50s of the 20th century.During the four decades of his work, his main concern was to raise the artistic level of contemporary Georgian books. He also worked in painting…

After graduating from the Faculty of Painting of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Giorgi Roinishvili  started working in the editorial office of the magazine „Dila” (Morning) in 1947. He continued to be its artistic editor for four decades. He left us dozens of paintings…

Gogi Tsereteli holds a distinct place among Georgian graphic artists of the 1960s and 1970s. The artist created many easel paintings and graphics, but since the 2000s, he has been more involved in book design, creating illustrations, and ex libris. In 1972, Gogi Tsereteli graduated…

Malkhaz Kukhashvili, an Honored Artist of Georgia, began his artistic career in the late 1960s. He mainly works in the field of drawing. He has been the art director of numerous fiction, musical, documentary, and stage plays for the Rustaveli Theatre. He has made several…

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 –scenographer, painter, book illustrator and designer, art critic, and public figure. On his father’s side he was a descendant of the Shervashidze princely house, the grandson of the last ruler of Abkhazia, Prince Giorgi Shervashidze; on his mother’s side – French.In St. Petersburg,…

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…