29 Notable alumni of
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
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The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts is 1668th in the world, 375th in Asia, and 5th in Georgia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zurab Tsereteli
- Occupations
- politicianarchitectpaintersculptor
- Biography
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Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian painter, sculptor and architect known for large-scale and at times controversial monuments. Tsereteli has served as the President of the Russian Academy of Arts since 1997.
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Elene Akhvlediani
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Elene Akhvlediani was a 20th-century Georgian painter, graphic artist, and theater decorator. Akhvlediani is famous for her depictions of Georgian towns, for her illustrations for the works of Ilia Chavchavadze and Vazha-Pshavela, and for designing plays in the Marjanishvili Theater in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Mikheil Chiaureli
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1912
- Occupations
- pedagoguepoliticianfilm directortheatrical directoranimator
- Biography
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Mikheil Chiaureli was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950.
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Nana Jorjadze
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- directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriterpedagoguefilm actor
- Biography
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Nana Jorjadze is an Academy Award nominated film director, scriptwriter and actress.
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Zair Azgur
- Occupations
- politiciansculptorpainter
- Biography
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur was a Soviet and Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period. Born in Mogilev Governorate (now in Vitebsk Region, Belarus), he studied in that city from 1922 to 1925; from 1925 until 1928 he studied at the Vkhutein in Leningrad. He first exhibited in 1923. He was mainly active in Minsk, where among his projects was the creation of reliefs for the opera house. He created a series of portrait busts of war heroes and military figures during the 1940s. At the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels he won a silver medal for his statue of Rabindranath Tagore. Monuments to his design were erected at Luhansk in 1947; Minsk in 1947; Borodino in 1949; Suzdal in 1950; and Leninogorsk - a monument to Vladimir Lenin - in 1957. Later in his career he exhibited in Bucharest and Paris.
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Petre Otskheli
- Occupations
- scenographerpaintercostume designer
- Biography
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Petre Otskheli was a Georgian modernist set and costume designer who designed in theatre in Georgia and briefly in Moscow. He was put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge at the age of 30, but his scenographic constructivism has had a lasting influence on the Georgian scenic design.
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Elguja Amashukeli
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Elguja Amashukeli was a Georgian sculptor and painter. From 1981 to 1996 he was the chairman of the Georgian Association of Visual Artists.
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Merab Berdzenishvili
- Occupations
- politicianpaintergraphic designersculptor
- Biography
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Merab Berdzenishvili was a Georgian sculptor and artist.
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Rafael Israelyan
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1926-1928
- Occupations
- architectlecturer
- Biography
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Rafayel "Rafo" Israyelian was a Soviet Armenian architect.
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Zviad Tsikolia
- Occupations
- industrial designer
- Biography
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Zviad Tsikolia is a Georgian industrial designer. Since 2010 he is a leading in-house designer at the design bureau STC Delta.
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Konstantin Totibadze
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1989-1991
- Occupations
- karatekapainterillustrator
- Biography
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Konstantin Georgevich Totibadze, also known as Kostya Totibadze, is a Russian painter of Georgian origin and illustrator born on (1969-09-08)8 September 1969 in Tbilisi.
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Eduard Isabekyan
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1935-1941
- Occupations
- painterart educator
- Biography
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Eduard Isabekyan was an Armenian painter, founder of thematic compositional genre in Armenia.
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Zaza Burchuladze
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- journalistscreenwriteractorplaywrightwriter
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Zaza Burchuladze is a contemporary postmodern Georgian novelist and dramatist. Currently, he lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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Levan Songulashvili
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Levan Songulashvili is a Georgian-born New York-based visual artist; painter, draughtsman, installation and multimedia video artist.
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Apollon Kutateladze
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze was a Soviet and Georgian painter.
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Gia Bugadze
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainter
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Gia Bugadze is a Georgian artist. He was the Rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 2003 to 2012.
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Georgy Georgevich Totibadze
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- illustratorpainter
- Biography
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Georgy Georgevich Totibadze, also known as Gogi Totibadze, is a Russian and Georgian painter and illustrator.
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Arpenik Nalbandyan
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1941
- Occupations
- painterlecturer
- Biography
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Arpenik Nalbandyan was a Soviet-Armenian artist.
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Hripsime Simonyan
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Hripsime Simonyan was an Armenian artist and sculptor, who made an invaluable contribution to the development of decorative art and ceramics. She was rewarded as being People's Artist of Armenia (1974).
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Irakli Ochiauri
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Irakli Ochiauri was a Georgian painter and sculptor who was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize, the highest prize in Georgia in the fields of art and literature.
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Gogi Totibadze
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- graphic designerpainter
- Biography
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Georgy Konstantinovich Totibadze was a Georgian painter. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts 1975-2010.
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Vidadi Narimanbekov
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- painter
- Biography
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Vidadi Narimanbekov was a painter, Honored Art Worker and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
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Gia Gugushvili
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Gia Gugushvili is a Georgian painter. Gia Gugushvili has produced nonfigurative as well as and minimalistic figurative compositions. His paintings are in museums and private collections all over the world.
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Dimitri Tavadze
- Years
- 1911-1990 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- scenographer
- Biography
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Dimitri Tavadze was a Georgian artist and scenographer.
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Levan Lagidze
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Levan Lagidze (Georgian: ლევან ლაღიძე; (born 1958, Tbilisi) is a prominent Georgian painter.
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David Alexidze
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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David Alexidze is a Georgian artist. His art can most precisely be described as mystic realism. His works are introduced in many catalogues and preserved in various private collections. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Visual arts of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.
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Robert Kondakhsazov
- Enrolled in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Robert Kondakhsazov; (July 26, 1937 – June 23, 2010) was a Georgian-born artist, writer and philosopher, Honored Artist of Georgia.
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Ayyub Huseynov
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ayyub Huseynov was an Azerbaijani artist, pedagogue, Honored Art Worker of the USSR, member of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan.
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Batu Siharulidze
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Batu Siharulidze, is a Georgian artist naturalised in the United States, most widely known for his abstract figurative sculptures. He now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is an associate professor of art at Boston University.
