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. …
Alexander Berdysheff – draftsman, painter, designer and photographer, graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1988. In 1990 he completed an internship at Glasgow School of the Arts (Macintosh) (Scotland). Alexander Berdysheff created a completely original artistic world with a strange mix of modernism…
Henryk Hryniewski was a Polish-Georgian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was also known as a scholar and an educator of traditional Georgian architecture. He was arrested and put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Few of his original work survive. Hryniewski was born…
Alexander Florensky – painter, graphic artist and ceramicist, Alexander Florensky was born in 1960 in Leningrad, in the family of artists. In 1982 he graduated from the Ceramics Department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Industrial School in Leningrad. He was one of the…
Olga Florenskaya -Painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and sculptor, born in 1960 in Leningrad, in a family of artists. In 1982 she graduated from the ceramics department of the Vera Mukhina Higher Art and Technical School. Together with his spouse Alexander Florensky, she organized a group of…
Nino Jishkariani works in the field of painting, graphic art, book design and illustration; creates posters and exlibris. She designed posters for the “Film Actors Theatre” (1984-85) in Tbilisi, and illustrated dozens of books, collaborating with publishing houses such as “Nakaduli”, “Merani” and “Soviet Georgia”.…
Nodar Malazonia’s creations include the fields of painting and drawing (book design, poster, caricature, illustration), graphic design, and computer graphics. He designed Georgian bonistika (Coupon, Gel, Georgian Tetri), and documents (passport, driver’s license, ID card, and voucher) together with Mamia Malazonia. The role of Nodar Malazonia…
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…