In 1977, Malkhaz Tavadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with the specialty of film and television art (teachers: Sergo Kobuladze, Ucha Japaridze, Dimitri Taqaishvili, Gogi Totibadze). In 1980-1983, he continued his studies at the graphic arts workshop of the Academy of Arts…
Manana Beliashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1957 with the specialty of painter-graphic artist. His teachers were: V. Gregory, V. Japaridze, I. Charlemagne. The diploma work was illustrations of Georgian folk tales (teacher I. Charlemagne). For years she worked in publishing houses…
Ketevan Rukhadze, a graphic artist, ceramic artist, book illustrator, and decorator, studied at the Faculty of Ceramics at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 1968 to 1973. After completing her studies, she became a senior lecturer at the Department of Ceramics and Glass (1983-1991)…
Vakhtang Gulisashvili, a painter, graphic artist, decorator, and metal engraver, studied at the painting department of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts from 1960 to 1965 under the guidance of Ucha Japaridze and Sergo Kobuladze.The artist created significant works for the House of Culture in Bichvinta…
Honored Artist of Georgia, painter, graphic artist, and book designer Givi Gulisashvili was an alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, graduating from Mose Toidze’s class in 1938. He began participating in art exhibitions soon after. The main motifs of his works are images of…
Zelimkhan Gogolashvili was a Georgian painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator. He was a member of the Georgian and USSR Artists’ Unions and held the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. An alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1941–1947), he…
Zurab Lezhava was an accomplished graphic artist, teacher, and professor who headed the Graphic Design Department at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. He was an Honored Artist of Georgia and an Honored Citizen of Tbilisi. An alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, he graduated…
Elene Akhvlediani (1901-1975) was a painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, and theater and cinema artist. Beyond her prolific output, she played a pivotal role in organizing events. She formed a group of Georgian women landscape painters who specialized in Plein Air art and initiated a…
Shalva Kikodze, one of the important representatives of Georgian modernism, was born in 1894 in the village of Bakhvi in Georgia. From 1902 to 1912, he studied at the Tbilisi Noble Gymnasium. In 1914, he went to Moscow with a scholarship from the Society for…
Vladimir (Lado) Gudiashvili, a Georgian painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, theater and cinema artist, book illustrator, People’s Artist of Georgia, and laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, is one of the outstanding representatives of Georgian modernism.Lado Gudiashvili was born in 1896 in Tbilisi. From 1910 to…
Modernist Georgian artist David Kakabadze was at the same time an art theoretician, scientist, and inventor. His name is one of the most important in the history of 20th-century Georgian painting.David was born in 1889 in the village of Kukhi in Imereti. Soon, his family…
Giorgi (Gigo) Gabashvili – Georgian painter, graphic artist, and People’s Artist of Georgia (1929), was one of the founders of modern Georgian realistic painting.In 1882-1883, Gabashvili studied at the Kempen private art school in Tbilisi. He collaborated with the battle artist Franz Roubaud, who created…