Apollon Kutateladze

Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze (in Georgian: აპოლონ ქუთათელაძე, (1900-01-06)6 January 1900 in Khoni – (1972-06-25)June 25, 1972 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian painter.[1]

Apollon Kutateladze
Apollon Kutateladze in his artist workshop
Born(1900-01-06)January 6, 1900
Khoni, Georgia
DiedJune 25, 1972(1972-06-25) (aged 72)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Resting placeDidube Pantheon, Tbilisi
NationalityGeorgian and Soviet
EducationEugene Lanceray, Gigo Gabashvili, Iosif Adolfovich Charlemagne
Alma materTbilisi State Academy of Arts
Known forpainting, drawing, design, graphic design
StyleSocialist realism
MovementTbilisi State Academy of Arts
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour
Memorial(s)Apolon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

Early life

Apollon Kutateladze starts to study in Poti, Georgia. He continues to study at the "Caucasian society of artist support" school, where he will be specialised in art from 1914 to 1915. In 1915, he will quit Poti to join the "Nikolay Sklifosovsky" Academy of Painting and Drawing in the capital, Tbilisi, before joining the Georgian army in 1916. He will be sent to battle in 1921 against the Red Army, as part of the Georgian War of Independence.

After his demobilisation, he participates to the satirical journal "Nalgui" (transl. Crocodile) in Tbilisi. He graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1926 after studying four years with teachers Eugene Lanceray, Gigo Gabashvili and Iosif Adolfovich Charlemagne. He has had several academic trips to Leningrad.[2]

Career

From 1943 onward, Apollon Kutateladze establishes himself in Tbilisi and teaches[3] at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts,[4] of which he will become the rector in 1959.[5] He will put in place in the Academy a new pedagogical method of teaching Arts, which consists in education, practise (workshop creation) and construction (projects from industrial partners). This will leave the classical art pedagogical methods behind, to the profit of the new method derived from the three principles of Walter Gropius in Bauhaus.

Throughout his career, Apollon Kutateldaze will receive the Order of the Badge of Honour twice and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour once. He will also become People's Artist of the USSR.

Personal life

Apollon Kutateladze marries Vera Georgievna Megreladze. He will have two sons: Tariel Kutateladze (architect) and Guram Kutateladze (painter).[6][7]

His second wife, Maria Ivanovna Edokimova, will give him two daughters: Manana Kutateladze and Nana Kutateladze (who will marry Georgy Konstantinovich Totibadze).[8][9]

His third and last wife was Mirel Zdanevich (daughter of Kirill Zdanevich) will give him his last son: Karaman Kutateladze (painter),[10][11] before Apollon Kutateladze's death in 1972.

Heritage

Tbilisi State Academy of Arts will be renamed Apollon Kutateladze State Academy of Arts[12][13] after his death in 1972. A street in Tbilisi is also renamed Apollon Kutateladze Street around 2000. Apollon Kutateladze actually rests in the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.

Works

Apollon Kutateladze has created a large quantity of works during his lifetime,[14] of which many historical scenes and portraits, such as:

  • "Comrade Stalin heading the Batumi workers' protest"
  • "Conversation between comrade Stalin and the peasants of Adjara in 1902"
  • Comrade Stalin with Mother (1930)[15]
  • paintings «Sergo Ordzhonikidze encourages mountaineers to come to the defense of Grozny» (1938)
  • «a Joyful harvest» (1953)
  • «On the plantations of Georgia» (1957)
  • «grape Harvest» (1961)
  • «March of Queen Tamara» (1967)
  • «the Hunting Queen Tamar» (1970)

References
  1. "Artist Kutateladze Apollon Karamanovich". artinvestment.ru. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. "Apollon Kutateladze". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3 ed.). Soviet Union: Советская Энциклопедия. 1970–1979. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  3. "Vladimir Kandelaki". www.kandelakiv.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. Author, No. "Elegant Baroque-Persian style Tbilisi Academy of Arts in need of restoration". GeorgianJournal. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  5. "Tbilisi Academy of Arts". The Georgia Photo Philes. 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  6. "Karaman Kutateladze – It's Absurd As if "Black Lion" Was Officially Purchased From Us - News Agency InterpressNews". interpressnews. Archived from the original on 2018-02-18. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  7. "Art-Villa Garikula". www.garikula.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  8. "Пока все дома — дом четвертый". Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  9. "Totibadze Gallery на Винзаводе". winzavod.ru. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  10. "Зданевичи из Кирпичного переулка - mateshg5". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  11. "Garikuka Art Project". echosdetbilissi.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  12. "Museu-Apollon-Kutateladze-Tbilisi-State-Academy-of-Art-Academia-de-Arte-Georgia-Setembro-2008". Flickr. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  13. "Academy of Arts". Pinterest. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  14. "АртРу.инфо - Иллюстрации - Кутателадзе Аполлон Караманович (06.01.1900-1972)". artru.info (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  15. "Joseph Stalin: bloody tyrant and bookworm". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
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