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…

Edmond Kalandadze is one of the most significant figures in modern Georgian art. From his student years in the 1940s, he was recognized as a highly talented and active artist. The work of Georgian artists from this period attained the status of both a political…

Jibson Khundadze belongs to the generation of Georgian artists from the 1950s and 1960s, known for introducing a new abstract wave in Georgian visual art. His work gradually moved away from the perception of realistic landscapes, as well as the stylistic elements of impressionism and…

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…

Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, stage designer, teacher, honored art worker of the Georgian SSR, was born in Moscow. He is a man and an artist of a difficult fate. Having lived a long, eventful life, he became a living history, a bridge connecting…

Petre Bliotkin, Soviet Painter and Graphic Artist of Russian Origins, was Honored Artist of The Soviet Socialist Republic. He lived and worked in Georgia. He was the student of I. Sharleman, E. Tavtevosian and E. Lansere. He actively took part in exhibitions from 1930. In…

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…

Zhani (Zhango) Medzmariashvili is a prominent representative of the generation known as the “50s Generation.” This generation, which endured a difficult childhood due to political repressions and the Second World War, played a pivotal role in shaping the most significant cultural developments in Georgia during…

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…

Apollon Kutateladze starts to study in Poti, Georgia. He continues to study at the “Caucasian society of artist support” school, where he will be specialised in art from 1914 to 1915. In 1915, he will quit Poti to join the “Nikolay Sklifosovsky” Academy of Painting…

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…

Rita Khachaturian lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, majoring in Easel Graphics. Rita’s works are easily recognizable thanks to her uncompromising style and even due to the severity that was obvious in her earlier series Fear, Morphology,…