Tamar Abakelia
Tamar Abakelia ( Georgian თამარ აბაკელია ; Russian Тамара Григорьевна Абакелия Tamara Grigoryevna Abakelia * August 19 jul. / 1. September 1905 greg. In Honi , Imereti , † 14. May 1953 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian sculptor , painter , stage and costume designer .
Live and act
She studied from 1924 to 1929 at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi under Nikolas Porfirewitsch Kandelaki, where she herself taught as a professor since 1938.
Her father Grigor Abakelia, a functionary in the Georgian Soviet Republic, and her uncle Josif Abakelia ( Georgian იოსებ აბაკელია ), a well-known Georgian tuberculosis specialist , were executed during the Stalinist Great Purge in 1938. She was married to the socialist poet and dramaturge Karlo Kaladse (1907–1988), her son was the sculptor Gulda Kaladze (1932–1974).
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1942)
Works
Abakelia's works show a peculiar romantic elation, but a monumentality emerges in her national pictures and sculptures. In the 1930s and 1940s her work belonged to the style of socialist realism . Her works were posthumously included in the 2015 overview show Post-Stalinist Liberalization of Georgian Painting by the Georgian National Gallery .
- 1936–1937 Fries at the former Institute for Marxism-Leninism, Tbilisi. The work shows the various stages in the history of the Georgian Soviet Republic.
- 1952 Monument to the Ukrainian poet Lesja Ukrajinka in Surami , Georgia
- The first tractor , painting
- Giorgi Saakadze , painting, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi
Her illustrations include:
- 1935 Nikolai Semjonowitsch Tichonow : Стихи о Кахетии. Moskva 1935; 2nd expanded edition, Tbilisi 1949.
- 1936–1937 Shota Rustaveli: Витязю в тигровой шкуре. (Russian edition of The Warrior in a Tiger Skin ).
- 1939 to Давид Сасунский ( David von Sassun , Armenian national hero).
- 1947 on the works of Wascha-Pschawela (illustrations, watercolor, gouache, Indian ink, pencil, 1947)
literature
- L. Shanidze: თამარ აბაკელია. (Tamar Abakelia). In: ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია ( Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia ). Tbilisi 1975, Volume 1: ა – ატოცი. P. 12.
- Alexander Mikaberidze (Ed.): Abakelia, Tamar. In: Dictionary of Georgian National Biography. 2006, georgianbiography.com ( Memento of January 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - (English).
Web links
- Tamari Abakelya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photo gallery paintings , text Georgian
- Photo gallery sculptures , text Georgian
Individual evidence
- ^ Post-Stalin Liberalization in Georgian Painting , exhibition information (English, Georgian).
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SURNAME | Abakelia, Tamar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | თამარ აბაკელია (Georgian); Абаке́лия, Тама́ра Григо́рьевна (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian sculptor, painter, set and costume designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Choni , Imereti |
DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1953 |
Place of death | Tbilisi |