Painter, teacher, and honored artist of Georgia, Nana Meskhidze grew up in an artistic environment. Her father was a musician and choirmaster, and her mother was an actress at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi. In 1963, she graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, where…

Sculptor and teacher, Honored Artist of Georgia, Nelli Aleksidze graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Art’s sculpture department, where she studied under Silovan Kakabadze and Nikoloz Kandelaki. She primarily created small statuary—portrait sculptures and small compositions, with a particular focus on dancing figures. Her first…

Bidzina Avalishvili was a sculptor and an honored artist of Georgia. The painter Ucha Japaridze famously used his face for the image of Besik Gabashvili. He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1947, studying sculpture under Iakob Nikoladze. Most of his creations are…

Sculptor, Painter, Teacher, and Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi, he earned numerous honors and titles throughout his life. He was the honorary Artist of the Georgian SSR, a Full Member of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union, an Academician of the Georgian Academy of…

Konstantine Merabishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1930, where he specialized in sculpture under Iakob Nikoladze. He began his pedagogical career there in 1934.  Merabishvili primarily worked in two fields: monumental sculpture and portraiture. In 1937, he received his first monumental…

Grigory Gagarin was a Russian amateur artist, illustrator, art critic, and architect. He served as Oberhofmeister of the Imperial Court and vice president of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. Gagarin studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Sorbonne, Paris, while…

Sikharulidze Bathu is a sculptor and teacher. In 1985, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where he studied under Irakli Okropiridze and Gogi Ochiauri. He later worked at the academy in the class of Professor Merab Berdzenishvili. Since 1994, he has been…

German painter, graphic artist, and orientalist, he graduated with a silver medal from the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. From 1890, he joined numerous archaeological and ethnographic expeditions to the Caucasus and Central Asia. While living in Tbilisi (1912–1937), he created several ethnographic works depicting…

Vakhtang Kotetishvili was a philologist, psychologist, ethnographer, and sculptor. In 1911, he graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary, and in 1914 from the Faculty of Pedagogy at the St. Petersburg Psycho-Neurological Institute. In 1918, he completed his studies at the Faculty of History and Philology…

Artist and public figure, the People’s Artist of Georgia, Ketevan Magalashvili was born in Kutaisi, Georgia in 1894. Between 1911 and 1915, she studied at the Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture of the Caucasian Society. In 1914, she went to Moscow and began her…

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…