Merab Merabishvili

Merab Merabishvili
მერაბ მერაბიშვილი
Born(1931-07-06)6 July 1931
Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died11 January 2022(2022-01-11) (aged 90)
Tbilisi, Georgia
OccupationSculptor
Years active1955–2022

Merab Konstantines dze Merabishvili (Georgian: მერაბ მერაბიშვილი; 6 July 1931 – 11 January 2022) was a Georgian sculptor known for his monumental public works. He was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1980 and was a full member of both the USSR Academy of Arts and the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

Early life and education

Merabishvili was born on 6 July 1931 in Tbilisi, the son of the sculptor Konstantine Merabishvili.[3] In 1955 he graduated in sculpture from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where he had studied under his father.[2][3]

Career

Merabishvili taught at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 1961, becoming a professor in 1978 and later head of its drawing department.[2][3] He was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts in 1988 and an academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1996.[1][3]

Working in a realist, monumental idiom, he created many public monuments. Among them are the monument to Alexander Griboyedov in Tbilisi (1961), the equestrian monument to King Erekle II in Telavi (1971), a monument to Georgi Dimitrov in Moscow (1972, with his father), equestrian monuments to General Pyotr Bagration in Tbilisi (1984) and Moscow (1999), and a monument to Shota Rustaveli later installed in Budapest.[2][3]

Awards and honours

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Death

Merabishvili died in Tbilisi on 11 January 2022, aged 90, and was buried beside his father.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "In Memory of the Georgian Sculptor Merab Merabishvili". Russian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d "Merabishvili Merab". Ministry of Culture of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g მერაბ მერაბიშვილი [Merab Merabishvili]. Georgian Biographical Dictionary (in Georgian). National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.

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