Elguja Amashukeli

Elguja Amashukeli (Georgian: ელგუჯა დავითის ძე ამაშუკელი; 22 April 1928 – 10 March 2002) was a Georgian sculptor and painter. From 1981 to 1996 he was the chairman of the Georgian Association of Visual Artists.[1]

Life

Elguja Amashukeli graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1955.

Since 1996 he has been a corresponding member of the Department of Linguistics and Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1985 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Arts. He designed subway stations, created memorials and monuments in Georgia.

Elguja Amashukeli died on March 10, 2002, and is buried in the Didube Pantheon Cemetery in Tbilisi.[2]

He wrote two books: The Seventh Sense (1981) and Art Letters (1984).

Works (selection)
  • Mother of Georgia, Tbilisi (1958)
  • Monument to King Vakhtang I Gorgasali, Tbilisi (1967)
  • Monument to Niko Pirosmani, Tbilisi (1975)[3]
  • Monument to the heroic sailors, Poti (1979)
  • Monument to the Mother Tongue "Knowledge Bell", Tbilisi (1983)
  • Monument to King David IV the Builder, Kutaisi (1994)

Awards

References
  1. "Soviet Georgian sculptor Elgudzha Amashukeli". Soviet Art (in Russian). 2017-07-10. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  2. Elgudscha Amaschukeli Archived 2019-02-28 at the Wayback Machine auf der Webseite der Bibliothek des Georgischen Parlaments (georgisch)
  3. Zizischwili, Irakli (1985), Tbilissi - Architekturdenkmäler und Kunstmuseen (in German), Leningrad: Aurora
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