An outstanding representative of Georgian ceramic art and one of the founders of the Georgian Institute of Art History, Honored Artist of Georgia, Zakaria Maisuradze excelled as both an artist and a scholar.  He was the first to study the technology of medieval Georgian ceramics.…

In 1957, Vakhtang Oniani graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Sculpture. In 1960-1961, he worked as a chief artist in Drosha magazine; In 1964-1980, he was the chief artist of the State Committee of the Printed Word. Among his outstanding works are:…

In 1968-1974 Avtandil Monaselidze studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (teachers: Valentin Topuridze, Gogi Ochiauri). The main works of the artist are: The Queen of the Fields (1975. Bronze), Chiron and Orpheus (1988. Bronze), the multi-figure composition Berikaoba…

Anthimoz Gorgaze, an Honored Artist of Georgia,  was a sculptor, metal engraver, and teacher. An alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, he graduated in 1949 and, starting in 1951, began participating in numerous exhibitions while teaching the art of metal engraving to the students.…

Koba Guruli was a sculptor and engraver and one of the founders of modern Georgian metal engraving. An Honored Artist of Georgia, he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Art’s sculpture department in 1956. He is credited with introducing several new artistic and technical methods…

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…

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…

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…

Modernist Georgian artist David Kakabadze was at the same time an art theoretician, scientist, and inventor. His name is one of the most important in the history of 20th-century Georgian painting.David was born in 1889 in the village of Kukhi in Imereti. Soon, his family…