Zaira Bechvaia, after graduating from the Yakob Nikoladze Art School, continued her studies in 1973 at the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, under the guidance of prominent public artists A. Kutateladze, K. Makharadze and E. Kalandadze’s class. She had a…

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…

Vakhtang Givievich Gulisashvili   –  Georgian painter, graphic artist, decorator, designer, and metalwork artist; a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. From 1960 to 1965, he studied in the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts under Ucha Japaridze and…

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…

Zaur Golava mastered the art of painting in the studio of Apolon Kutateladze at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1970 and continued his studies in a creative workshop at the USSR’s Academy of Arts under the well-known socialist realist painter Ucha Japaridze. He was…

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…

Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin was a 19th-century Russian painter, illustrator, art historian, and architect; he served as an Ober-Hofmeister of the Imperial Court and as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts of Russia. He worked in the fields of painting, graphic art, illustration, lithography, monumental…

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…