Levan Tsutskiridze was a Georgian monumentalist artist, illustrator, and painter of frescoes in the Sioni Cathedral, Tbilisi. Tsutskiridze illustrated The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin, a poem published in Berlin in German translation. It was also published in Tbilisi, Moscow, Yerevan, and Japan. He was…
Maia Naveriani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied under Gia Edzgveradze before going through strict social realism education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. After moving to London she found her own unique voice in drawing, broaching feminist issues with humor, self irony…
The eminent graphic artist, founder of modern Georgian graphic art, People’s artist of the Georgian SSR, winner of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, Honored Art Worker of the Georgian SSR and Professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Lado Grigolia is considered a major master of…
Koki Makharadze birth in Ochamchire, Georgia. He graduated from Ap. Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1953. Since 1973, he has been teaching at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Important works: “Suvorov and Bagration in the Alps” (1952), “Battle of Aspindze (1961)”, large…
Ucha (Ilia) Japaridze was a Georgian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, and educator, and one of the major figures in twentieth-century Georgian visual art. In Georgian art historiography, he is recognized primarily as one of the founders and leading representatives of Georgian Socialist Realist painting.…
Mose Toidze – Painter, graphic artist, People’s Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Professor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts , one of the founders of the new Georgian painting. He studied at the St. Petersburg Art…
In 1947, Georgy Totibadze begins to study arts and painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with teacher Ucha Japaridze, before receiving his diploma in 1953. In 1959, he obtained the title of professor and created his own artist workshop. He has been named…
Sculptor, graphic artist, book illustrator, and professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Gogi Ochiauri was a representative of the 1950s pleiades of the Georgian sculptors whose creative activity was mostly dominated by the search for motives and characters expressing national identity. Among his monumental…
After Graduating Tbilisi Economical Institute, in 1922 young Korneli Sanadze started classes in Mose Toidze Public Art Studio. In 1924 he entered Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended lectures of E. Lancere, I. Sharleman, G .Gabashvili, E, Tatevosian. From 1934 he started…
A sculptor, painter, graphic artist and book illustrator, Elguja Amashukeli, like other sculptors of his pleiade, authored the icons with strong national identity in monumental urban sculpture. His kings as well as the symbolic and allegorical statuary: Vakhtang Gorgasali, Mother of All Georgians, A Tiger…
Guram (Khita) Kutateladze was born in the family of famous Georgian painter and rector (1959–1972) of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Apolon Kutateladze. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1940-1942, 1946) and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1942-1946). His…
Tengiz Mirzashvili was born in 1934 in Svanetia region. In 1958 graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi faculty of Theater an Decorative Arts. He was passionate about Georgian landscapes and the history of his country and created series of landscapes and genre paintings. …