Apollon Kutateladze


Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze was a Georgian painter.

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" 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.

Career

From 1943 onward, Apollon Kutateladze establishes himself in Tbilisi and teaches at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, of which he will become the rector in 1959. He will put in place in the Academy a new pedagogical method of teaching Arts, which consists in education, practise and construction. 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 and Guram Kutateladze.
His second wife, Maria Ivanovna Edokimova, will give him two daughters: Manana Kutateladze and Nana Kutateladze.
His third and last wife was Mirel Zdanevich will give him his last son: Karaman Kutateladze, before Apollon Kutateladze's death in 1972.

Heritage

will be renamed Apollon Kutateladze State Academy of Arts 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, of which many historical scenes and portraits, such as: