Sergo Kobuladze

Sergo Kobuladze
სერგო ქობულაძე
Born7 February [O.S. 25 January] 1909
Died22 July 1978 (aged 69)
CitizenshipRussian Empire
USSR
EducationTbilisi State Academy of Arts
AwardsStalin Prize 1st class (1947[1] and 1948)[2]
Shota Rustaveli Prize (1979)[3]

Sergo Kobuladze (Georgian: სერგო ქობულაძე; 7 February [O.S. 25 January] 1909 – 22 July 1978) was a Soviet and Georgian painter and illustrator. He was a rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1952-1959)

From 1918 he went to N. Sklifasovski Art Studio; in 1925-1939 – to Tbilisi Academy of Arts. The years spent in Moscow and Leningrad in the early 1930s had a great impact on the artist's professional development. From 1932 Sergo Kobuladze efficiently worked for the Tbilisi Kote Marjanishvili and Shota Rustaveli Theatres, Tbilisi Zakaria Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre and for Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. In 1938 Sergo Kobuladze started teaching activity in Tbilisi Academy of Arts, where he founded and headed the Department of Painting and in 1953-1958 he became the Rector of the State Academy of Arts. After many years of work, in 1961 he completed the iconic painted stage curtain (170 sq. m) for Zakaria Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre. Several versions of the curtain were drawn up. According to available documentary material, a compositional illustration based on the theme of Zakaria Paliashvili's opera Absalom and Eteri was placed on the curtain during the first stage. The remaining space was devoted to a portion of an enormous, bulky and rather rigid carpet-patterned curtain. The artist later changed his mind and replaced the narrative compositional element with the image of a mythical character. The audience dubbed this portrait the "Muse of Music."[4] In 1973 fire completely destroyed the hand-painted curtain.[5]

References

  1. ^ "В Совете Министров СССР О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства и литературы за 1946 год" (PDF). Sovetskoe iskusstvo. No. 24. 13 June 1947. p. 1.
  2. ^ "В Совете Министров Союза ССР О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства за 1947 год" (PDF). Sovetskoe iskusstvo. No. 17. 24 April 1948. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Постановление Центрального Комитета Компартии Грузии и Совета Министров Грузинской ССР О присуждении Государственных премий Грузинской ССР им. Ш . Руставели за 1979 год" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka. No. 48. 25 February 1979. p. 3.
  4. ^ atinati.com. "SERGO KOBULADZE - THE TBILISI OPERA HOUSE CURTAIN". atinati.com. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  5. ^ "Sergo Kobuladze | Baia Gallery".