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Teona asitaSvili

Theona Asitashvili

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Teona asitaSvili

asitaSvili Teona giorgis asuli daibada 1930 wlis 26 maiss q.sanktpeterburgSi grafikosi, mxatvar-restavratori, saqarTvelos damsaxurebuli mxatvari (1976w.). daamTavra q.Tbilisis samxatvro akademia 1956 wels prof. i.Sarlemanis klasSi. iqve eweva pedagogiur moRvaweobas(1959-60,1972-80). mxatvar-restavrato-ris specialobas daeufla drezdenis suraTebis galereaSi (1960-64) g.Svagarusis xelmRvanelobiT. muSaobda saxelmwifo xelovnebis muzeumSi dazguri ferweris restavraciis ganyofilebis gamged(1964-85).

Teona asitaSvilis namuSevrebisaTvis damaxasiaTebelia Temis aqtualuroba, daxvewili gemovneba, maRali profesionalizmi.

misi Semoqmedeba mravalferovania, muSaobs portretisa da peizaJis dargSi, qm-nis Janrul peizaJebs da muSaobs wignebis gaformebaze.

misi namuSevrebia „svaneTi“ (1959), „musikosebi“ (1963), „gremi“(1968), seria „ax-ali drezdeni“(1964), peizaJebis seria „kaxeTi“ wlis saukeTeso namuSevaria(1987).

namuSevrebis didi raodenoba SeZenilia saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeumisa da q. quTaisis galereis mier, agreTve imyofeba amerikis, italiis, germaniis, saber-ZneTis da misi mSobliuri q.Tbilisis koleqcionerTa kerZo sakuTrebaSi.

Theona asiTashvili

Graphic artist, picture restorer, honoured artist of Georgia(1976), Theona (Georgevna) Asitashvili was born on May 26, 1930 in St. Petersburg. In 1956 she graduated from Tbilisi Academy of Arts with professor I.Sharleman , where later she was engaged in educational work(1959-1960, 1972-1980). She received traning of restoration of works of art at Dresden Art Gallery under the guidance of G.Shvagarus(1960-1964). She worked as a had of depart-ment of easel painting restoration at State Museum of Georgia(1964-1985).

Actuality of theme, refined taste, high standard of mastery are characteristic features of Theona Asitashvili’s works.

Her interests are diverse and include portraits, book illustrations; she is a master of genre and landscape painting.

“Svaneti”(1959), “Musicians”(1963), “Gremi”(1968), series “New Dresden”(1964) and “Kakheti”(1987), which is the best work of the year, are well known pictures of Theona Asi-tashvili.

A great deal of her works have been bought by Georgian Art Museum and Kutaisi Art Gallery, and also are in possession of private collectors of World (Unated States of America, Italy,Germany,Greece and….) and her home town Tbilisi.

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nergavs silamazes da yofis romantikas

arc ise advilia sagazeTo statiaSi mTlianad gadmoices SesaniSnavi mxatvris, namdvilad inteli-genti adamianis, Sesaxeb wera, romelic naTesaurad dakavSirebulia saqarTvelos gamoCenil moRvawee-bTan. Teona asitaSvilis didi babua – petre cole oficris CiniT “Tavisufali azrovnebisaTvis” ga-dasaxlebuli iyo peterburgidan kavkasiaSi. igi damkvidrda tfilisSi da daojaxda – colad SeirTo iulia TumaniSvili, vaJi misi – pavle cole – aseve daojaxda da colad SeirTo qarTveli mandilosani mariam meliqiSvili, romelic iyo Tbilisis pirveli saxelmwifo universitetis pirveli reqtoris, petre meliqiSvilis Zmiswuli, Teonas bebia muSaobda Tbilisis konservatoriaSi. im periodSi, roca iq moRvaweobdnen zaqaria faliaSvili, ana TulaSvili, henrix neihauzi, misi megobari da Tayvanismcemeli. Teonas bavSvuri mogonebebidan: erTxel, henrix gustavis Zem moinaxula bebia da miarTva Cais vardebis didebuli Taiguli. pavle coles adreuli gardacvalebis Semdeg ojaxze mzrunveloba ikisra uSvilo petre meliqiSvilma. amags da zrunvas ar aklebda mis Zmiswul mariams da SviliSvils natalias. Teonas deda natalia igonebs, rom xuTSabaTobiT meliqiSvilis ojaxSi stumrobdnen: akaki wereTeli, ale-qsandre yazbegi, bebias megobari kato gabaSvili, keke meliqiSvili publicisti, sergi mesxis meuRle, Tavad mwerali, kote marjaniSvilis biZaSvili. mexsierebas SemorCa erTi epizodi: erT-erT xuTSabaTs aleqsandre yazbegs gaeqca patara maimuni, romelic mas dahyavda stumrobisas. patara maimuni daiWires biWebma saxuravze da Caabares patrons. ojaxurma tradiciebma, maRali inteleqtis da kulturis ada-mianebTan urTierTobam, xeli Seuwyves Teonas mxatvrad CamoyalibebaSi. jer kidev adreul bavSvobaSi, man miiqcia yuradReba bavSvTa naxatebis gamofenaze. mas, mesame klasis mowafes, mianiWes pirveli pre-mia. meoTxe klasidan igi muSaobs pionerTa sasaxlis norC mxatvarTa wreSi. xelmZRvaneli iyo kote mesxi, romelic iyo valentin serovis mowafe. omis bolo wlebSi, saqarTvelos kulturis saministrom ikisra niWier axalgazrdebze Sefoba. erT-erT saangariSo gamofenaze, romelic mudmivad tardeboda pionerTa sasaxleSi, Teonas akvarelebma gamoiwvia aRfrTovaneba. maSindeli kulturis ministris ro-stom Sadurisagan da am momentidan Teona asitaSvilis ojaxi uzrunvelyofili iyo sakvebi produqte-biT, rac daexmara mas gaeZlo im mSier wlebSi. 1950 wlidan Teona Sedis Tbilisis samxatvro akademiaSi, maSin aswavlidnen iq iseTi korifeebi, rogorebic iyvnen ioseb Sarlemani, sergo qobulaZe, daviT gab-aSvili, lado quTaTelaZe, vladimer grigolia, vasil Suxaevi. samxatvro akademiis brwyinvaled das-rulebis Semdeg, axalgazrda mxatvari, maSinve Caeba SemoqmedebiT muSaobaSi. mogzaurobs saqarTvelos sxvadasxva raionebSi elene axvledianis jgufTan erTad.

monawileobs rene Smerlingis svaneTis da daRestanis eqspediciebSi, sadac isini iZiebdnen qris-tianul xuroTmoZRvrul Zeglebs. raWaSi, guriaSi, daRestanSi mogzaurobis STabeWdilebebs Teonam Tavis namuSevrebSi ganaxorciela. 1960 wels igi miemgzavreba germaniaSi, drezdenSi, ramac didi roli iTamaSa Teonas mxatvrad CamoyalibebaSi da misTvis damatebiTi axali profesiis restavratorad zeTis ferweris nawarmoebebis aRdgena-ganaxlebaSi.

aRsaniSnavia, rom drezdenis sarestavracio skola iTvleba msoflioSi saukeTesod. Teona muSaobda cnobili restavratoris Svagirosis xelmZRvanelobiT, romlis Sesaxeb igi igonebs Tavis maswavleb-els didi siTboTi. drezdenis galereaSi muSaobis periodSi, Teonam Cautara restavracia ferweris sxvadasxva skolis aTeul suraTebs, rac moiTxovda sxvadasxva stilis gansakuTrebul skolas, eru-dicias, rom aRaraferi vTqvaT Teonas profesiul Cvevebze, mas ar Seuwyvetia mecadineoba ferweraSic: hqmnida namuSevrebs, romlebic eZRvneboda drezdens, es namuSevrebi Sesrulebuli iyo aqvareliT da monotipiis teqnikiT. magram monatreba samSoblosa da ojaxze, misi dardi avadmyof mamaze aiZulebs Teonas, uari eTqva Tavisi warmatebuli da saintereso samuSaosTvis drezdenis sarestavracio sax-elosnosTvis da daetovebina erTguli megobrebi, maT Soris lea grundigi da misi meuRle, romle-bic SeiZina man drezdenSi yofnis periodSi. TbilisSi dabrunebisas, igi miiwvia akademikosma Salva amiranaSvilma saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeumSi mTavar restavratoris Tanamdebobaze, romlis di-reqtori batoni Salva amiranaSvili iyo. magram axalgazrda restavrators, omis Semdgom wlebSi mouxda mravali, didi siZneleTa gadalaxva: saRebavTa sruli uqonloba, xelT hqonda ukve sarge-blobaSi myofi Zveli funjebi, papirosis qaRaldis ramdenime furceli. da amave dros udidesi pa-suxismgebloba: saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeumi, romelic aris erovnuli da msoflio Sedevrebis saganZuri. amis Semdeg misma xelebma SesZles mieca axali sicocxle mravali nawarmoebisaTvis, magram yvelaze mZime da sapasuxismgeblo iyo muSaoba niko firosmaniSvilis tiloebze. es namuSevrebi sava-lalo mdgomareobaSi iyo: es genialuri TviTnaswavli ostati ZiriTadad muSambaze, cudi, iaffasiani saRebavebiT, magram Teona asitaSvilma gadaarCina firosmani da misca mas pirvandeli saxe. aranakleb dazianebuli iyo rubensis tilo “sasiyvarulo paemani”, romelic drois gavleniT, tilo dafaruli iyo “naoWebiT”, Savi laqebiT. aucilebeli iyo “gaeaxalgazrdavebina” es namuSevari da CaetarebinaT Zirfesviani mkurnaloba sokos sawinaaRmdegod da moxda saswauli: rubensis koloritis mTeli JRera-doba. ukve saxelganTqmuli Teona asitaSvili miiwvies samxatvro akademiaSi ferweris restavraciis

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da konservaciis ganyofilebis xelmZRvanelad. 30-ze meti kvalificirebuli specialistebi, mis mier momzadebulni ganagrZoben nayofier muSaobas. SeiZleba vTqvaT, rom Teona asitaSvilma Seqmna saqa-rTveloSi sarestavracio skola. aseve intensiurad muSaobda igi SemoqmedebiT asparezze. Teona asi-taSvilis namuSevrebis Sesaxeb SeiZleba visaubroT bevri da aRtacebulni, magram SevCerdebi mxolod CvenTvis sayvarel namuSevrebze: erT-erTia am ciklidan “kaxeTi” – Zlieri qaris gamo ixreba magari xe, foni – zamTris mZime Rrublebi, Soreulad Cans borcvebze SeyuJuli saxlebi, TiTqos sicivisagan Tavdasacavad. suraTi Sesrulebulia TiTqmis monoqromiulad – lurji – yavisferi mimqrali gamiT, magram ar aRiqmeba rogorc moqufrulad. wylis am droisaTvis JRers silamaze da sicocxlisadmi siyvaruli. imave Temaze vaJkacobas da Serkinebaze namuSevari “qariani saRamo” – moqufruli, damZime-buli Rrublebi sust xeebisaken moZraoben, magram es xeebi ar ixrebian uamindobis winaSe. kolori-ti Cabnelebulia, magram ara Zlierad bneli tonebiT. mxatvari gverds uvlis civ tonebs, romlebic aqcents ukeTebs uimedobis, sibnelis da sibnelis ganwyobas da amis gamo misi Tbili tonebi JRers optimisturad. ar aris sasowarkveTa “SemodgomaSic”. xeivani Zveli, gaSiSvlebuli xeebis fonze ax-algazrda qurTi qali energiulad xvetavs Camocvenil foTlebs. TiTqos sevdiani sanaxaobaa, magram suraTi daxatulia Zalian rbil moJRalo-yavisfer tonebSi da mxiaruli, naTeliT JRers qurTi qalis mowiTalo kaba. aseTive ferebiTaa Sesrulebuli naturmortebi. Termini (gamoTqma) “mkvdari natura” ar Seefereba mxatvris mier gamosaxul Semodgomis foTlebs da yvavilebs. maTSi gansakuTrebuli simS-venieriT da daxvewilobiT aris koloriti. es cxovrebis Semodgomis simfoniaa. mniSvnelovania Teona asitaSvilis SemoqmedebaSi dedobis Tema. mis portretebSi aris Tanamedrove madonebi. isini Rrmad fsiqologiurad aris gamosaxuli. maTSi aris gawonasworebuloba, dedobrivi siyvarulis bedniereba.

teqnikis sxvadasxvagvarobiT, JanrebiT (portretebi, naturmortebi, peizaJebi, Sesrulebuli aqva-relebi, guaSi, zeTi, monotipebi).

iseni gaerTianebulia maRali ostatobiT da mainc swored aqvarelia Teona asitaSvilis stiqia. Cemi azriT, igi aqvarelis saukeTeso ostatia saqarTveloSi misi namuSevrebi amSveneben saerTaSoriso respublikur gamofenebs, inaxeba muzeumebSi, kerZo koleqciebSi msoflios sxvadasxva saxelmwifoebi. laipcigSi gamocemul mxatvarTa leqsikonebSi mas miniWebuli aqvs saqarTvelos damsaxurebuli mx-atvris wodeba, da mainc Teona asitaSvilis ZiriTadi damsaxureba imaSia, rom igi umReris da afuZnebs yofis silamazes da romantikas. es weliwadi T.asitaSvilisaTvis saiubileo weliwadia. xandaxan si-tyva “iubile” JRers rogorc Sedegi warsuli cxovrebis, magram ara TeonasaTvis – igi agrZelebs intensiur muSaobas da Cven vusurvebT mas axal SemoqmedebiT warmatebebs.

e. TulaSvilisaqarTvelos damsaxurebuli mxatvari

man Seqmna restavraciis skola

SeiZleba advilad gaugo saqarTvelos erovnul muzeumSi mosul damTvaliereblebs, romlebic mi-iswrafian niko firosmanaSvilis qmnilebebisken da aRfrTovanebaSi modian nanaxiT, jer erTi misi unikaluri niWi, romelmac gaaoca mTeli msoflio da meorec, suraTebi gamoiyureba ise axleburad TiTqos es-esaa daixata didi ostatis funjiT. da mxolod mcire maTganma Tu icis ra didi Sroma Caaqsoves dazguri ferweris restavraciis didostatma Teona asitaSvilma da misma mowafeebma am su-raTebis pirvelad mdgomareobaSi mosayvanad.

gadaWarbebuli ar iqneba Tu vityviT, rom gza am WeSmariti gmirobisa xelovnebaSi Teonam gaikvala mcirewlovani asakidan. 1947 wels 8 wlis gogonas niWi SeamCnia gamoCenilma qarTvelma mxatvarma mose ToiZem, mas Semdeg, rac daaTvaliera skolis moswavleebis namuSevrebis gamofena da ver moiTmina, rom ar daewera patara mxatvris Sesaxeb gazeT “axalgazrda komunistis” furclebze. Semdeg, Tanmimdevro-biT, Teona swavlobda mxatvrobas jer pionerTa sasaxleSi, saqarTvelos saxalxo mxatvris grigol mesxis jgufSi, Semdeg Tbilisis samxatvro teqnikumSi da bolos Tbilisis samxatvro akademiaSi, grafikis fakultetze, romelsac xelmZRvanelobda cnobili mxatvari da sazogado moRvawe, adamiani, romelmac didi amagi dasdo qarTul kulturas, profesori ioseb Sarlemani. Teona asitaSvilTan muSaobdnen niWieri pedagogebi – soso gabaSvili, lado grigolia, vaxtang jaWariZe, vasil Suxaevi.... sadiplomo samuSao Teonam Seasrula vaJa-fSavelas moTxrobebis motivebze (“Svlis nukris naambobi”, “saTaguri”, “rogor gaCndnen buebi qveyanaze”) da wardga sazogadoebis winaSe, rogorc srulfasovani, TviTmyofadi mxatvari. SemdgomSi igi muSaobda gamomcemlobebSi: “sabWoTa xelovneba”, “sabWoTa mw-erali”, “sablitgami”. “saxelgamis” dakveTiT man daasuraTa krilovis “igav-arakebi” da voiniCis “kra-zana”. bevrs mogzaurobda saqarTvelos sxvadasxva kuTxeSi, daRestanSi da miRebuli STabeWdilebebis xorcSesxmas axdenda Tavis grafikul da akvareliT namuSevrebSi, romlebic warmodgenili iyo Cveni

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qveynisa da sazRvargareTis mraval gamofenaze.da ai, dadga 1960 weli, romelmac bevri ram Secvala mis cxovrebaSi. Teona asitaSvili muSaobas

iwyebs msoflios erT-erT saukeTeso sarestavracio saxelosnoSi – drezdenis samxatvro galerea-Si. qarTveli mxatvris xelmZRvaneli iyo sarestavracio xelovnebis patriarqi, drezdenis galereis cocxali mematiane, msoflioSi mravali saxelganTqmuli tilos gadamrCeni – hainrix Svagarusi. misi momTxovnelobis Sesaxeb dadioda legendebi da niWiereba mowafem saqarTvelodan Seicvisa. es usaz-Rvro momTxovneloba da sizuste. igi zedmiwevniT swavlobda TiToeuli mxatvris Sesrulebis stilsa da xelweras, swavlobda saRebavebis Semadgenlobis gansazRvras, xsnarebisa da narevebis damzadebas, suraTebis gadarCenas bzarebisa da sokoebisgan.

drezdenSi Cvenma Tanamemamulem monawileoba miiRo 150-mde namuSevris restavraciaSi. maT Soris iyo msoflio xelovnebis iseTi ostatebis namuSevrebi, rogorc iyvnen – ticiani, diureri, rubensi, van-deiki, korejo....

germaniidan dabrunebuli Teona asitaSvili mogvevlina dazguri ferweris pirvel qarTvel pro-fesional restavratorad da akademikos Salva amiranaSvilis mowveviT, romelic imxanad xelmZRvan-elobda saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeums, saTaveSi Caudga restavraciis da konservaciis ganyofilebis laboratorias. im dros CvenTan saerTod ar arsebobda dazguri ferweris restavraciis araviTari skola, laboratoriaSi ar iyo saWiro masalebi, xolo mxatvris inventaridan, mxolod ramodenime uvargisi funji Tu moiZebneboda. amitom, rom ityvian, yvelaferi dasawyebi iyo nulidan.

aiRo ra Tavis Tavze uzarmazari pasuxismgebloba, vinaidan saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeumi erovnuli da msoflio inteleqtualuri simdidris erT-erT sacavs warmoadgenda, Teona asitaSvili nabij-nabij vaJkacurad umklavdeboda siZneleebs da TandaTanobiT gamoCnda pirveli Sedegebic, rom-lebmac yvela gaaxara. saqarTveloSi gamomavali Jurnal-gazeTebi saqebar epiTetebs ar iSurebdnen Teonas misamarTiT.

muzeumSi muSaobis periodSi Teonam WeSmaritad titanuri samuSao gaswia da sicocxle daubrunda uamrav suraTs. ferweris nimuSebis restavracia xom Zalze safrTxilo da Sromatevadi saqmea, ro-melic garda umaRlesi ostatobisa moiTxovs udides moTminebas, vinaidan, zogjer, zogierTi sura-Tis restavracia wlobiTac grZeldeba. ase, magaliTad, weliwad-naxevari dasWirda rubensis tilos “sasiyvarulo paemanis” gadarCenas, romelzedac gamoberili iyo saRebavi da mTeli tilo dafaruli iyo wvrili buStulebiT. saWiro gaxda WeSmaritad iuveliruli samuSaos Catareba genialuri flaman-dielis suraTis gadasarCenad. da ramdeni Sroma iyo Cadebuli didi germaneli mxatvris lukas kranax-is “mravaltanjuli” suraTis “maWanklis” restavraciaSi. restavraciis Semdeg es suraTi amSvenebda saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeums, Semdeg ki CarCos gamocvlis sababiT waRebul iqna moskovSi, sadac vinme larisa iaSkinam, Tavisi ambiciis dasakmayofileblad gadawyvita Taviseburad moexdina suraTis restavrireba. man suraTs mTlianad moxsna lisireba (zeda Txeli fena), riTac dairRva suraTis pirve-ladi saxe da ase daubrunda igi saqarTvelos xelovnebis muzeums. SemdgomSi es tilo moparuli iqna muzeumidan, Semdeg napovni da kvlav dabrunebuli muzeumSi.

Teonas monaTxrobze dayrdnobiT gansakuTrebiT rTulia niko firosmanaSvilis suraTebis restavra-cia. is ZiriTadad xatavda muSambaze, muyaoze ubralo iaffasiani saRebavebiT. amitom misi qmnilebe-bi yvelaze naklebad daculi iyo obis sokos damSleli zemoqmedebisgan da saRebavebis cvenisgan. es yvelaferi ki sakmaod arTulebda restavraciis process. miuxedavad amisa Teonam daubruna sicocxle nikalas iseT Sedevrebs, rogoricaa – “meezove”, “mzareuli”, “qeifi mearRne daTiko zemelTan”, “Txa”, “kaxeTis eposi”, “qeifi orsarTuliani saxlis win”...

didi Sroma gaswia Teonam erekle II. vaJis batoniSvil levanis ormxrivi salaSqro xatis restavra-ciis saqmeSi. xati imdenad iyo gaSavebuli, rom masze ar ikiTxeboda gamosaxuli figurebi da mxolod RvTiT boZebulma Teonam filigranulma ostatobam gadaarCina es xati.

1971 wels Teona asitaSvili moiwvies Tbilisis samxatvro akademiaSi, sadac is Caudga saTaveSi restavraciis da konservaciis ganyofilebas, romelic pirvelad gaixsna ferweris kaTedrasTan. amgvarad, mas mieca saSualeba daearsebina saqarTveloSi dazguri ferzeris restavraciis skola, “Svagarusis skolis” yvelaze mowinave teqnologiuri miRwevebis danergviT. fasdaudebelia Teonas pedagogiuri moRvaweoba. man moamzada 30-ze meti kvalificiuri specialisti – restavratori: nana managaZe, Tamar bakuraZe, evelina qarseli, joni axobaZe, boris skrinikovi, nino merabiSvili, nana Co-driSvili da bevri sxva, romlebic agrZeleben am keTilSobilur saqmes.

xolo TviTon Teona asitaSvili aRsavse SemoqmedebiTi energiiT, dResac ganagrZobs Semoqmedebas. is xom grafikis da akvarelis didostaticaa, rasac mowmobs misi uamravi namuSevari daculi sxvadasx-va qveynis muzeumebsa da kerZo koleqciebSi.

malxaz ebraliZestatia `golovinis prospeqtidan~ 2007

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inside the Painter’s studio : asserting the Beauty and Romance of Being

It is difficult to fit into a newspaper article entire life and work of a remarkable artist, a refined person de-scending from a distinguished family. Teona Asitashvili’s great grandfather, Petre Tsolle, an officer, was exiled for freethinking from Petersburg to Caucasus. Having settled, he married Julia Tumanishvili. Their son, Pavel Tsolle also married a Georgian, Maria Melikishvili, niece of Petre Melikishvili, the first rector of the Tbilisi State University. Teona’s grandmother worked at Tbilisi Conservatory at the time of professors Zakaria Paliashvili, Anna Tulashvili, and Heinrich Neuhaus, her friend and admirer. From Teona’s childhood memories: once, while staying in Tbilisi, Heinrich visited her grandmother and presented her with a gorgeous bouquet of tea roses…

When Pavel Tsolle passed away at quite a young age, childless Petre Melikishvili assumed responsibility for his family, taking care of niece Maria and granddaughter Natalia. Remembering her childhood, Natalia, Teona’s mother, would recall how the Melikishvilis would host on Thursdays such guests as Akaki Tsetreteli; Alexander Kazbegi; grandmother’s friend Kato Gabashvili; Keke Melikishvili, a writer and the wife of a political essayist Sergo Meskhi, a cousin of Kote Marjanishvili. One episode stuck in mind: once, on one of the Thursdays, Al-exander Kazbegi’s favorite monkey, whom he would frequently take with him to visit his friends, ran away. The monkey was caught on the roof of a house by some boys and brought back to its master.

Teona’s father, Giorgi Asitashvili was a well-known surgeon. His classmates were Egnate Pipia and Avlipy Zurabashvili. Giorgi Asitashvili acquired a great professional experience in general surgery while in Leningrad, hi is listed among notable surgeons of the century in the book Galery of National surgeons : over the century – 1885-1985. In Tbilisi he set up and headed the Osteo-Tuberculosis Surgical Department of S/R Institute of Tuberculosis. Teona’s mother was a teacher of French.

Family traditions as well as personal contacts with intellectuals were the factors that inspired Teona’s artistic talent. She attracted attention at a very young age at an Exhibition of Children’s Paintings – the first prize went to the youngest participant, a third-grade student Teona. From the fourth grade she studies at the Pioneers Palace’s Drawing Study Group lead by Valentin Serov’s student Grigol Meskhi.

By the end of World War II Georgian Ministry of Culture initiated a support program for gifted children. At one of the regularly held at the Pioneers Palace reporting exhibitions Teona’s watercolors enraptured the then Minister of Culture, Rostom Shaduri. Since then Teona’s family would receive a food supply, which helped them survive those hungry years.

In 1950 Teona entered Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. Her professors were such coryphaei as Joseph Sharleman, Sergo Kobuladze, David Gabashvili, Lado Kutateladze, Vladimir Grigolia, Vasily Shukhaev…

Upon brilliantly graduating from the Academy the young artist immediately immerses herself into creative work. She travels around Georgia together with Elene Akhvlediani, participates in Rene Schmerling’s Svaneti and Dagestan expeditions in search of relics and monuments of Christian architecture. Her impressions about her travels through Racha, Guria, and Dagestan were incarnated in her paintings.

In 1960 she goes to Dresden, Germany, this experience being a major factor in Teona’s formation as an artist and her acquisition of another profession of an easel painting restorer. Notably, the Dresden school of restora-tion is considered the best in the world. Teona worked under the leadership of Heinrich Schwagarus, whom she remembers with warmth and gratitude.

While working at the Dresden Gallery Asitashvili restored tens of paintings of various schools of painting; such work requires exceptional grasp of styles and erudition, leave alone professional expertise.

She had not abandoned painting either and created series of works depicting Dresden in watercolor and in the technique of monotypy. However, homesickness and worries for her ill father made Teona forgo her successful and interesting career at the restoration shop of Dresden Picture Gallery and leave her true friends acquired over the four years in Germany, such famous painters as Lea Grundig and her spouse.

Upon return to Tbilisi Teona is invited by academician Shalva Amiranashvili, the then director of the Tbilisi Museum of Fine Arts, to occupy the post of the Chief Restorer. However, in those post-war years the young restorer had to face great difficulties : absence of paints; her entire equipment comprised of just some used brushes and a couple of filigree sheets… And at the same time it was a colossal responsibility – the Museum of Fine Arts being a repository of national and world masterpieces.

Quite a few paintings went through restorer Teona Asitashvili’s hands since then. Yet the most challenging was her work on Niko Pirosmanishvili’s paintings. They were in a deplorable state : brilliant self-taught painter worked mainly on oilcloth using cheap off-grade oils. But Teona Asitashvili salvaged Pirosmani’s works and restored them to their original brilliance. No less strenuous was restoration of Rubens’ “Rendezvous”, which was

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considerably scathed by time, all covered with scissures and black stains… Teona had to not only rejuvenate the canvas, but also conduct a thorough anti-fungi treatment. And a miracle did happen : Rubensian colors vividly resounded in full spectrum.

Already recognized, Teona Asitashvili is invited to the Academy of Fine Arts to chair the Department of Res-toration and Conservation of Easel Painting. More than 30 restoration professionals were raised by her over her tenure at the Academy. Teona Asitashvili, without doubt, has established the school of restoration in Georgia.

With the same rigor she is engrossed in her creative work. It is possible to talk about Teona Asitashvili’s paintings rapturously for hours on end. But I would like to pause on several, my most favorite, of her works. One of them belongs to Kakheti series. Under the strong wind a majestic tree is bending, heavy winter clouds in the background. Far away houses cling fast to the hills as if to protect themselves from chill. The painting is almost monochrome, in blue-brown subdued color. Nonetheless, the impression is not ominously bleak; beauty and hopefulness are conveyed to be characteristic of this season too. The same theme of courageous resistance is expressed in Windy Evening. Severe clouds have gathered pressing on fragile trees; yet they won’t surrender to nascent bad weather… The color gamma is dark, though not dismal. The artist avoids cold colors that would accentuate dispiriting dark mood – full of warm hues, her works sound optimistic.

There is no despondency in her Autumn as well. An alley of old bare trees… A young Kurdish woman is dashingly sweeping away the fallen leaves… It could have been a melancholy sight, but the painting is per-formed in warm ginger-brown tones, and the reddish dress of the street cleaner is beaming a merry flame.

Still lifes are done in similar autumn colors. The term still life is hardly applicable to Teona’s bouquets of autumn leaves and flowers. They bear exceptional splendor and finesse of color. They are an autumn symphony of life.

Motherhood theme is also significant in Teona’s work. She depicts contemporary madonnas in her portraits. They are profoundly emotional. There is calm and happiness of maternal love in them.

High mastery is pervasive throughout her works of various techniques and genres (portraits, still lifes, and landscapes in watercolor, gouache, oil, or monotypy). Yet, watercolor is Teona Asitashvili’s element. I believe she is the best Georgian watercolorist. Her works are displayed in international and national exhibitions, housed in the museums and private collections in many countries of the world.

The artist has had several personal exhibitions. Teona Asitashvili’s merits are recognized and acknowledged. Her work and activities are described in the Dictionary of World’s Artists published in Leipzig; she is awarded a title of Honored Painter of Georgia.

Still her core value is her persistence in asserting the beauty and romance of being.This is an anniversary year for Teona Asitashvili. Sometimes the term anniversary sounds as a resume of

past life. Only not for Teona – she is continuing her intensive work and we are wholeheartedly wishing her new creative achievements.

elena Tulashvilihonored Painter of Georgia

(vecherniy Tbilisi, 27-30 august 2002)

she founded the school of Restoration

It is easy to understand those who upon entering the Georgian Museum of Arts immediately hasten to-wards Niko Pirosmanishvili’s works. Firstly, it’s his world known awe-inspiring unique talent, and secondly, the paintings themselves, that look as if freshly out of the great primitivist’s brush. Only few know what it took the grand master of easel painting restoration, Georgia’s distinguished painter, Teona Asitashvili and her students to restore those painting to their original brightness.

Teona had been paving her path to her no less than heroic dead in the Arts from her very childhood. A well-known painter Mose Toidze, having seen the eight-year-old girl’s works at a school exhibition in 1941, singled her out as a gifted young artist and even wrote about her in the newspaper Akhalgazrda Komunisti. Then there came years of studies at the Pioneers Palace under the leadership of Valentin Serov’s student and People’s Paint-er of Georgia Grigol Meskhi; Tbilisi Vocational School of Art, and finally Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. Teona enrolled in the department of Graphics, then under the leadership of a prominent painter and public figure, a tireless contributor to the thriving of Georgian culture, professor Joseph Sharleman. Teona was lucky

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to study from such masters as Soso Gabashvili, Lado Grigolia, Vakhtang Japaridze, Vasily Shukhaev … She completed her dissertation - illustrations for Vazha Pshavela’s stories (A Tale of a Fawn, Mousetrap, How Owls Appeared on Earth) - and emerged into the world as a mature and distinctive artist. She worked in publishing houses Sabchota Khelovneba, Sabchota Mtserali, Sablitgami; illustrated commissioned by Sakhelgami Krilov’s Fables and Voinovich’s Gadfly; traveled extensively throughout Georgia and Dagestan, putting her impressions to canvas, creating paintings to be exhibited in Georgia as well as overseas.

And there comes the decisive in her life year of 1960 – Teona starts working with one of the world’s best restoration houses, the Dresden Art Gallery. The Georgian painter’s supervisor was Heinrich Schwagarus, pa-triarch of the art of painting restoration, living annals of the Dresden Art Gallery, savior of many famous canvases. His exactingness was legendary, and the Georgian student assimilated those unrelenting meticulous-ness and precision. She scrupulously studied styles of various artists; learned how to decipher compositions of colors, prepare mixtures and solutions, eliminate cracks and fissures from damaged paintings, and cure them from fungi. In Dresden our compatriot participated in the restoration of more 150 works, including those of such masters as Titian, Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Correggio…. She came back home from Germany as the first professional easel painting restorer, and, on invitation of academician Shalva Amiranashvili, Head of the Museum of Fine Arts, took command of a respective Laboratory of Restoration and Conservation Department. At the time there was no school of easel painting restoration in Georgia; the Laboratory had no supplies, and its meager equipment consisted of a couple of shabby brushes. It had to be started from scratch, which implied a huge responsibility – Tbilisi Museum of Fine Arts being one of the repositories of national and international intellectual treasure. Step by step Teona courageously overcame obstacles, and the first results delighted every-one. Georgian newspapers and journals were generously praising her efforts – in the Museum she performed a truly titanic job restoring 300 paintings. Restoration is a tedious task - apart from ingenious workmanship, it requires immense fortitude and patience, sometimes taking a year to restore just a single work. Thus, it took one and a half years to salvage the Rubens’ “Rendezvous” whose paint had been swollen and whole surface covered with tiny bubbles. It took an extremely fine work to revive the brilliant Flemish painter’s work. And how much effort was put into restoration of the misfortunate Sold Love of the great German painter Lucas Cranach! Upon restoration, the canvas would decorate the Museum of Fine Arts; but was later taken to Moscow under the pretext of changing the stretcher. There, some Larisa Yashkina arrogantly redid the restoration work – removed glazing (a superficial thin layer) and thus deformed the painting’s original look. Then the painting was returned to Georgia, stolen from the Museum, found and brought back again…

Teona told me that it had been especially difficult to restore Niko Pirosmanishvili’s works. He painted on oilcloth or cardboard, with simple, cheap paints. Hence his works suffered from destructive mold, shedding of paint, all of which yield with difficulty to restoration. And still, Teona was able to restore to life such master-pieces as Feast with Barrel Organist Datico, Feast in Front of the Two-story House, Gate Keeper, Cook, Kakhe-tia Sagas, Goat… She also shared her experience of working on the restoration of the double-faced icon of King Erekle’s son, Levan. The icon had blackened so that the figures were barely visible; only Teona’s filigree mastery was able to recover it.

In 1971 Teona Asitashvili was invited by her Alma Mater, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts to chair the Department of Restoration and Conservation freshly established at the Faculty of Painting. She thus got an opportunity to found in Georgia a School of Easel Painting Restoration equipped with state-of-the-art techno-logical achievements of Schwagarus school. Teona’s pedagogical legacy is invaluable – she raised more than 30 qualified restorers: Nana Managadze, Tamar Bakuradze, Evelina, Karseli, John Akhobadze, Boris Skrinnikov, Nino Merabishvili, Nana Chodrishvili….

Alas, the newspaper format makes the story of versatile creative work of an amazing painter incomplete. this article is thus restricted to her contribution to the establishment of the Georgian School of Easel Painting Restoration. That Teona Asitashvili is a wonderful painter of our times is demonstrated by her paintings housed in the museums and private collections of many countries around the world. She is especially brilliant in water-color, but this is yet another topic worthy of yet another article.

Malkhaz ebralidze(From Golovachevsky Prospekt, 2007)

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elba nislSi, drezdeni, 1963w. 75x50 q. akvareli

Mist on the elbe, Dresden, 1963 paper, watercolor 75x50

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briuliSeterasa, 1964w. 41x59 q. akvareli

brühl’s terrace, 1964 paper, watercolor 41x59

Rrubliani dRe, drezdeni, 1961w. 43x62 q.guaSi

clauDy Day, Dresden, 1961 paper, watercolor 43x62

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qalaqi maiseni, 1963w. 22x15 q.tempera

Meissen city, 1963 paper, tempera 22x15

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qalaqi gorlici, germania, 1963w. 50x51 muy.tempera

Gorlitz city, Germany, 1963 cardboard, tempera 50x51

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postplaci, drezdeni, 1964w. 47x59 q.pastel

PostPlatz, Dresden, 1964 paper, pastel 47x59 0729

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bavSvebi karnavalidan, 1964w. 25x38 q.monotipia

carnival chilDren, 1964 paper, monotypy 25x38

gogona karnavalidan1964w. 18x13 q.monotipia

Portrait of a carnival Girl1964 paper, monotypy 18x13

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wvimiani dRe, drezdeni, 1063 w. 57x45 q.akvareli

rainy Day, Dresden, 1963 paper, watercolor 57x45

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ungruli kapela, 1964w. 50x37 q.monotipia

hunGarian choir , 1964 paper, monotypy 50x37

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altmarketi, drezdeni, 1964w. 29,5x15 q.monotipia

altMarkt, Dresden, 1964 paper, monotypy 29.5x15

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karuseli, drezdeni, 1964w. 13,5x18 muy.monotipia

Merry-Go-rounD, Dresden, 1964 cardboard, monotypy 13.5x18

naturmorti sanTliT, 1963w. 10,5x15 q.monotipia

still life, 1963 paper, monotypy 10.5x15

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mocekvave boSis qali, 1962w. 42x32 q.monotipia

GiPsy Dance, 1962 paper, monotypy 42x32

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briulis terasa zamTarSi, drezdeni, 1963w. 16x27 muy.monotipia

brühl’s terrace in winter, Dresden, 1963 cardboard, monotypy 16x27

drezdenis gareubani, 1962w. 9,5x17 q.monotipia

in the outskirts of DresDen, 1962 paper, monotypy 9.5x17

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altmarkti, drezdeni, 1963w. 21x30 q. Sereuli teq.

altMarkt, Dresden, 1963 paper, mixed technique 21x30

naturmorti niRabiT, 1962w. 18x21 q.monotipia

still life with Mask, 1962 paper, monotypy 18x21

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koreeli studenti, drezdeni, 1962w. 41x30 q.monotipia

korean stuDent, Dresden, 1962 paper, monotypy 41x30

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altmarkti, drezdeni, 1963w. 15,5x11 q.monotipia

altMarkt, Dresden, 1963 paper, monotypy 15x11

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studenti qali, 1963w. 45x38 q.sangina

feMale stuDent 1963 paper, sanguine 45x38

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mamakacis portreti, 1963w. 19x15 q.monotipia

Portrait of a Man, 1963 paper, monotypy 19x15

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naturmorti ludiT, 1960w. 59x69 q.guaSi

still life with beer, 1960 paper, watercolor 59x69

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alJireli biWi, 1971 w. 45x33,5 q.sangina

alGerian boy, 1971 paper, sanguine 45x33,5

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cvingeri, drezdeni, 1963w. 22x18 q.monotipia

zwinGer, Drezden, 1963 paper, monotypy 22x18

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tiuringi, germania, 1963w. 64x50 q.akvareli

turinG, Germany, 1963 paper, watercolor 64x50

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drezdenis gareubani, 1963w. 29,5x42 q.akvareli

outskirts of DresDen, 1963 paper, watercolor 29,5x42

raihenbergi, germania, 1962w. 50x75 q.akvareli

reihenberG, Germany, 1962 paper, watercolor 50x75

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zamTari, drezdeni, 1964w. 59x41 q.akvareli

winter, Dresden, 1964 paper, watercolor 59x41

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naturmorti yvavilebiT, 1963w. 37x54 q. monotipia

still life with flowers, 1963 paper, monotypy 37x54

navsadguri, drezdeni, 1962w. 37x49 q.akvareli

seaPort, Dresden, 1962 paper, watercolor 37x49

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qvedlenburgi, germania, 1963w. 70x49,5 q.Sereuli teq.

QueDlenburG, Germany, 1963 paper, mixed technique 70x49,5

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mamakacis portreti, 1978w. 42x30 q.monotipia

Portrait of a Man, 1978 monotypy 42x30

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meSaxtes portreti, 1962w. 42x32 q. Sereuli teq.

Portrait of Miner, 1962 paper, mixed technique 42x32

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naturmorti 1969w. 71x58 q.Sereuli teq.

still life, 1969 paper, mixed technique 71x58

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dedoba, 1982w. 60x48 q.Sereuli teq.

MotherhooD, 1982 paper, mixed technique 60x48

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parki soxumSi, 1989w. 19x26 q.akvareli

Park in sukhuMi, 1989 paper, watercolor 19x26

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mtirala xe, 1996w. 32x36 q.akvareli.

weePinG tree, 1996 paper, watercolor 32x36

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lurji saxuravebi, 1077w. 36,5x51 q.akvareli

blue roofs, 1977 paper, watercolor 36.5x51

saRamos qalaqi, 1989w. 36x48 q.akvareli

eveninG city, 1989 paper, watercolor 36x48

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Jizeli, 1980w. 46x34 q.akvareli

Giselle , 1980 paper, watercolor 46x34

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yazbegi, 1990w. 62x55 q.akvareli

kazbegi 1990 paper, watercolor 62x55

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baTumi, 2003w. 17x23 q.akvareli

batuMi, 2003 paper, watercolor 17x23

gurzufi saRamos, 1977w. 37x48 q.akvareli

Gurzuf in eveninG, 1977 paper, watercolor 37x48

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gurzufi arteki, 1977w. 21x15 q.akvareli

Gurzuf, artek, 1977 paper, watercolor 21x15

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zRvis peizaJi, 2002w. 12x16 q.akvareli

seascaPe, 2002 paper, watercolor 12x16

navebi, 1990w. 14x17,5 q.akvareli

boats, 1990 paper, watercolor 14x17.5

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Ramis gurzufi, 1977w. 18x20,5 q.akvareli

niGht Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 18x20.5

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saRamos gurzufi, 1977w. 13,5x23 q. akvareli

eveninG Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 13.5x23

gurzufi, 1977w. 12x13,5 q.akvareli

Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 12x13.5

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seneJis tba, ruseTi, 1983w 14,5x24 q.akvareli

lake senezh, russia, 1983 paper, watercolor 14.5x24

seneJis tba, ruseTi, 1982w. 24x32 q.akvareli

lake senezh, russia, 1982 paper, watercolor 24x32

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gurzufi, 1977w. 20x21 q.akvareli

Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 20x21

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gurzufi, 1977w. 21x30 q.akvareli

Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 21x30

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soxumi, 1985w. 24,5x18,5 q.akvareli

sokhuMi, 1985 paper, watercolor 24.5x18.5

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samxedro gza, 1996w. 16x19 q.akvareli

Military roaD, 1996 paper, watercolor 16x19

mTebi, 1993w. 18x24 q.akvareli

Mountains, 1993 paper, watercolor 18x24

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armazis xeoba, 1968w. 20x28 q.akvareli

arMazi GorGe, 1968 paper, watercolor 20x28

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xosta, 1990w. 19,5x24,5 q.akvareli

khosta, 1990 paper, watercolor 19.5x24.5

Savi zRva, xosta, 1989w. 19x24,5 q.akvareli

black see, khosta, 1989 paper, watercolor 19x24.5

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avaTxara, afxazeTi, 1973w. 51x38 q.akvareli

avaDkhara, abkhazia, 1973 paper, watercolor 51x38

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gariyula, 1981w. 24x32 q.akvareli

Garikula, 1981 paper, watercolor 24x32

qarTlis peizaJi, 1986w. 36x48 q.akvareli

kartli lanDscaPe, 1986 paper, watercolor 36x48

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mTis peizaJi, 2005w. 22x22,5 q.akvareli

MountainscaPe, 2005 paper, watercolor 22x22.5

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busaadi, alJiri, 1971w. 22x32 q.akvareli

bou-saaD, algeria, 1971 paper, watercolor 22x32

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alJireli qalebi, 1971 w. 32x25 q.akvareli

alGerian woMen, 1971 paper, watercolor 32x25

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zRvis peizaJi, 1993w. 18,5x24,5 q.akvareli

seascaPe, 1993 paper, watercolor 18.5x24.5

gurzufi saRamos, 1977w. 9x14,5 q.akvareli

Gurzuf in eveninG, 1977 paper, watercolor 9x14.5

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seneJis tba, 1981w. 24x32 q.akvareli

lake senezh, 1981 paper, watercolor 24x32

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zamTris peizaJi, 1990w. 18,5x25,5 q.akvareli

winter lanDscaPe, 1990 paper, watercolor 18.5x25.5

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Sobis Rame, anaga, 1978w. 16x17,5 q.akvareli

christMas eve, anaga, 1978 paper, watercolor 16x17.5

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alJiri, 1998w. 18,5x24,5 q.akvareli

alGeria , 1998 paper, watercolor 18.5x24.5

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naturmorti broweuliT, 1990w. 57x64 q.akvareli

still life with PoMeGranate, 1990 paper, watercolor 57x64

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gazafxuli gremSi, 1984w. 64x44 q.akvareli

sPrinG in GreMi, 1984 paper, watercolor 64x44

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Semodgoma vakis parkSi, 1989w. 51x61 q.akvareli

autuMn in Park vake, 1989 paper, watercolor 51x61

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sofeli gulilebi, 1977w. 50x64 q.akvareli

wealiDGe Gulilebi, 1977 paper, watercolor 50x64

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dedoba, 1986w. 80x60 m.tempera

MotherhooD, 1986 cardboard, tempera 80x60

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qarTlis peizaJi, 1981w. 32x24 q.akvareli

kartli lanDscaPe, 1981 paper, watercolor 32x24

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saRamo vakis parkSi, 1976w. 36x48 q.akvareli

Park vake in the eveninG, 1976 paper, watercolor 36x48

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megreli qali, 1994w. 50x34 q.monotipia

MeGrelian woMan, 1994 paper, monotypy 50x34

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sevda, 1990w. 65x50 q.monotipia

saDness, 1990 paper, monotypy 65x50

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bu-saadi, alJiri, 1973w. 37x48 q.akvareli

bou-saaD, algeria, 1973 paper, watercolor 37x48

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naturmorti eklebiT, 1971w. 46x32 q.akvareli

still life, 1971 paper, watercolor 46x32

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mTebi dekemberSi, kaxeTi, 1979w. 48x36 q.akvareli

Mountains in DeceMber, kakheti, 1979 paper, watercolor 48x36

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kardenaxi, kaxeTi, 1977w. 48x36 q.akvareli

karDanakhi, kakheti, 1977 paper, watercolor 48x36

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Semodgomis yvavilebi, 1996w. 39x51 q.akvareli

autuMn flowers, 1996 paper, watercolor 39x51

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raWis naturmorti, 1967w. 58x43 q.akvareli

still life, racha, 1967 paper, watercolor 58x43

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bagebi, 1976w. 42x57 q.akvareli

baGebi, 1976 paper, watercolor 42x57

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Tbilisis botanikuri baRi, 1968w. 64x44 q.akvareli

tbilisi botanical GarDen, 1968 paper, watercolor 64x44

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pionebi, 1978 59x43 q.akvareli

Pioneers, 1978 paper, watercolor 59x43

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manana, 1971w. 54x38 q.akvareli

Manana, 1971 paper, watercolor 54x38

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mxatvris saxli, xosta, 1992w. 47,5x35,5 q.akvareli

house of creativity, khosta, 1992 paper, watercolor 47.5x35.5

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seneJis tba, ruseTi, 1982w. 32x24 q.akvareli

lake senezh, russia, 1982 paper, watercolor 24x32

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qalis portreti, 1995w. 32x23 q.monotipia

Portrait of a woMan, 1995 paper, monotypy 32x23

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glexis qali, 1975w. 32x25 q.monotipia

Peasant woMan, 1975 paper, monotypy 32x25

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zRvis porti, 1975w. 47x64 q.akvareli

seaPort, 1975 paper, watercolor 47x64

talini, 1989w. 41x55 q.akvareli

tallinn, 1989 paper, watercolor 41x55

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gogonas portreti, 1977w. 51x37 q.akvareli

Portrait of a Girl, 1977 paper, watercolor 51x37

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Semodgoma botanikur baRSi, 1968w. 63x50 q.akvareli

autuMn in the botanical GarDen, 1968 paper, watercolor 64x50

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zamTari kaxeTSi, 2007w. 48x56,5 q.akvareli

winter in kakheti, 2007 paper, watercolor 48x56.5

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qrizantemebi, 1974w. 88x82 muy.tempera

chrysantheMuMs, 1974 cardboard, tempera, oil 88x82

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naturmorti violinoTi, 1971w. 88x50 muy.tempera

still life with violin, 1971 cardboard, tempera 88x50

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Semodgomis motivi, 2008w. 36x48 q.akvareli

autuMn Motif, 2008 paper, watercolor 36x48

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qalis portreti wiTeli SliapiT, 1989w. 48x36 q.akvareli

Portrait of a woMan in reD hat, 1989 paper, watercolor 48x36

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gza delfisken, saberZneTi, 1978w. 24x32 q.akvareli

roaD to DelPhi, Greece, 1978 paper, watercolor 24x32

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gza kojrisken. 1971w. 32x38 q.akvareli

roaD to kojori, 1971 paper, watercolor 32x38

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astraxani, ruseTi 1967w. 43x63 q.akvareli

astrakhan, russia, 1967 paper, watercolor 43x63

volga, ruseTi, 1967w. 59x43 q.akvareli

volGa, russia, 1967 paper, watercolor 59x43

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qrizantemebi, 1966w. 64x51 q.akvareli

chrysantheMuMs, 1966 paper, watercolor 64x51

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indoeTi, 1989w. 45x64 q.Sereuli teq.

inDia, 1989 paper, mixed technique 45x64

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qaliSvilis portreti, 1998w. 50x41 q.sangina

Portrait of a younG laDy, 1998 paper, sanguine 50x41

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studentis portreti, 2004w. 50x35 q.sangina

Portrait of a stuDent, 2004 paper, sanguine 50x35

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mzia, 1989w. 49x37 q.sangina

Mzia, 1989 paper, sanguine 49x37

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Zveli qalaqi, gurzufi, 1977w. 48x36 q.akvareli

olD Gurzuf, crimea, 1977 paper, watercolor 48x36

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zRvis yure, 1997w. 36x48 q.akvareli

Gulf, 1997 paper, watercolor 36x48

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eqTani, 1972w. 43x33 q.fanqari

nurse, 1972 paper, pencil 43x33

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kaxeli glexi, 1976w. 62x43 q.Sereuli teq.

kakhetian Peasant, 1976 paper, mixed technique 62x43

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tyis piri, 1974w. 42x59 q.akvareli

near the forest, 1974w. paper, watercolor 42x59

seneJis tba, ruseTi, 1982w. 36x48 q.akvareli

lake senezh, russia, 1982 paper, watercolor 36x48

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sazafxulo kinoTeatri, xosta, 1987w. 40x48 q.akvareli

suMMer cineMa, khosta 1987 paper, watercolor 40x48

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java, samaCablo, 1980w. 36x48 q.akvareli

java, samachablo, 1980 paper, watercolor 36x48

sofeli volgaze, 1967w. 44x63,5 q.akvareli

villaGe on volGa , 1967 paper, watercolor 44x63,5

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gariyula, 1980w. 36x47,5 q.akvareli

Garikula, 1980 paper, watercolor 36x47,5

cemi, 1974w. 42,5x60 q.akvareli

tseMi, 1974 paper, watercolor 42,5x60

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tirifebi, 1975w. 56x50 q.akvareli

weePinG trees, 1975 paper, watercolor 56x50

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gurzufi, 1977w. 37x48 q.akvareli

Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 37x48

Zveli gurzufi, 1977w. 36x50 q.akvareli

olD Gurzuf, 1977 paper, watercolor 36x50

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Svagarusis sarekomendacio werilirecomendation letter of shvagarus

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drezdenis samxatvro galerea

DRESDEN ART GALLERY

T.asitaSvilis mentori henrih SvagarusiT. Asitashvili’s mentor Henrich Swagarus

T.asitaSvili suraTis restavraciis drosT. Asitashvili during the artwork restoration

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T.asitaSvilis samuSao adgiliT. Asitashvili’s working place

drezdenis galereis sagamofeno darbazSi(centrSi T.asitaSvili)Exhibition hall of Dresden Gallery (T. Asitashvili is in the center)

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T.asitaSvili sarestavracio ganyofilebaSi (ukan firosmanis sarestavracio namuSevrebi)T. Asitashvili in the restoration department (on the background Pirosmani’s paintings for restoration)

Tbilisis samxatvro akademiis studentebi suraTis restavraciis drosStudents of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts during restoration work

Tbilisis saxelmwifo muzeumSiIN GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ARTS

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muSaoba sadiplomo suraTzeWorking on diploma project

diplomis dacva dazguri ferweris restavra-ciaSi Tbilisis saxelmwifo samxatvro akademi-aSi xelmZRvaneli T.asitaSvili

Getting diploma degree in restoration under guidance of T. Asitashvili at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

T.asitaSvili esaubreba bavSvebs saxviT xelovnebaze pionerTa sasaxleSiT. Asitashvili is talking with Children about art at Tbilisi Pioneer Palace

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gamoqveynebuli statiebiPUBLICATIONS

1. “Neues Deutschland” N7, noemberi 1973 weli “New Germany” N 7, November, 1973

2. Jurnali “sabWoTa xelovneba” magazine “Sabchota Xelovneba”

3. “DDR in Wort und Bild” 1961weli “German Democratic Republic in words and pictures” 1961

4. Jurnali “reitingi” N35 2009 weli Magazine “Ratingi”. N35, 2009

5. Jurnali “saqarTvelos qali” N9 1981 weli Magazine “Sakartvelos Kali”, N9, 1981

6. gazeTi “Свободная Грузия” 19 maisi 2000 weli Newspaper “Svobodnaia Gruzia”, 19 May, 2000

7. gazeTi “Вечерний Тбилиси” agvisto 2002weli Newspaper “Vecherni Tbilisi”, August, 2002

8. gazeTi “Головинский Проспект” agvisto 2007weli Newspaper “Golovinski Prospect”, 19 May, 2007

enciklopediebiENCYCLOPEDIAS

1. saqarTvelos enciklopedia gv.228 1997weli Encyclopedia of Georgia, p. 228, 1997

2. “Allgemeinis Künst lexikon Die Bildende Künstler Aller Zeiten Und Volke” laifcigi 1986 weli “The General Encyclopedia of Artist of All Times And People” Leipzig, 1986

3. “Библиаграфический словарь художники народов ССР” 1 t. gv 216 “Bibliographic Dictionary of Artist of the USSR”, V.1, p. 216

wignebiBOOKS

1. “Искусство Совотской Грузии 1921-1970” avtorebi v.beriZe, v.ezerskaia moskovis gamomcemloba “Советский Художник”

“Art of Soviet Georgia 1921-1970”, V. Beridze, V. Ezerskaia, “Sovetski xudojnik”, Moscow

2. “Изобразительное искусство Грузинской ССР” avtorebi g.jamberiZe, a.masxaraSvili 1986 weli

“Fine Arts of Soviet Republic of Georgia”, G. Jamberidze, A. Maskharashvili, 1986

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katalogis Semdgeneli: elene asitaSvilicatalog compiler: elene asitashvili

fotografi: rafael arzumanoviPhotographer: rafael arzuManov

komp. dizaini: levan barbaqaZecoputer design: levan barbakaDze

T. asitaSvilis ojaxi gamoxatavs madlierebas aleqsandre rondelis mimarT katalogis gamocemaSi finansuri TanadgomisaTvis

t. asitashvili’s family expresses sincere thanks and gratitude to alexsander rondeli. for his financial support in publishing this catalog

daibeWda Sps `forma~-SiPrinting of “Forma” Ltd

www.forma.ge

T. asitaSvili mis aRzrdil restavratorebTan erTadt.asitashvili with her ex-student restorers