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Zaza Tuschmalischvili ( * May 15, 1960 in Skra, Georgia) is a Georgian painter, living and working in Berlin since 1991. thumbnail Annilie Hillmer found the Georgia Berlin Gallery in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1997. Zaza Tuschmalischvili is now one of the most important contemporary Georgian artists. ==Biography== Zaza Tuschmalischvili was born in 1960 in Skra, a small village near Gori in Georgia. When he was nine years old he underwent surgery for an inguinal hernia. In hospital he met the painter and art teacher Nugzari Zhochuaschvili. Zhochuaschvili discovered the talent of the young boy and started teaching him every afternoon in an art school in Gori. At the age of 15 Zaza was admitted to an art technical school in Zchinvali, a city 30 km away from Gori. After his graduation in 1979, Zaza did his military service. He stayed in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) for two years and during that time, had to employ his talent and creativity for political purposes. He was required to paint slogans and portraits, for example, of Stalin or Lenin, for International Labour Day and other events. At the age of 22 he was awarded a scholarship and began studying at the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. He specialized in fresco restoration and studied techniques for restoring medieval mural paintings. Between 1984 and 1987 he spent his holidays in the cloister Gelati. There he participated in the restoration of the apsidal mosaic of the Mother of God Church. In 1988 he lived and worked for nine months in the church Ateni Sioni as a restorer. Here he wrote his diploma thesis which involved painting a copy of a mural painting of the archangel Gabriel from the 11th century. After perestroika and the fall of the Berlin wall, Tuschmalischvili came to Berlin in the year 1991. He soon started to display his paintings next to the bookstands near Humboldt University. In 1994 he met Annilie Hillmer and she became his gallerist. She specialized in Georgian art, showed his pictures in her art salon and at international art fairs. In 1996 the artist won the competition of the New Society of Fine Arts. His painting Harmony for Love, a tempera work measuring 187 x 377 cm, was displayed throughout 1997 at the underground station Berlin-Alexanderplatz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zaza Tuschmalischvili」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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