GAMREKELI, Irakli Ilyich

5 (17) may 1894 (Gori) — on may 10, 1943 (Tbilisi)

the Artist of the theatre, painter

he Studied at Tiflis school of painting and sculpture (1910-е) Н. В. Склифосовского.

he Lived in Tiflis (Tbilisi). In his youth he was engaged in book graphics; completed the illustrations for "Salome" О. Уайлда. From 1921 he worked as a designer of dramatic performances, ballets, operas, movies; became close friends with theatre Director Kote Marjanishvili (К. А. Марджанов). In 1923-1943 — chief artist of Drama theatre. Shota Rustaveli in Tbilisi. Issued more than 50 спектаклей: "Mystery-буфф" В. В. Маяковского (1924, not built), "hamlet" (1925) and "Othello" (1937) У. Шекспира; "Anzor" (1928) and "Arsen" (1936) С. И. Шаншиашвили; "the Break" Б. А. Лавренева (1928), "Tetnuld" (1931) and "the spark" (1937) Ш. Н. Дадиани; "the Robbers" Ф. Шиллера (1933), "Man with a gun" Н. Ф. Погодина (1938), "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" А. Е. Корнейчука (1940)"Betrayal" А. И. Сумбатова-Южина (1940), "Bride of billboards" К. Гольдони (1942).

In 1930 — early 1940-х actively worked at the Russian drama theater them. А. С. Грибоедова and the Theatre of Opera and ballet. З. Палиашвили in Tiflis (Tbilisi). Issued a statement: "Red poppy" Р. М. Глиэра (1932), "Abesalom and Eteri" З. П. Палиашвили (1937), "Heart mountains" А. М. Баланчивадзе (1938), "Lado Ketskhoveli" Г. В. Киладзе (1940), "Patara Kakhi" Л. П. Гокиели (1943).

also Worked at the Bolshoi drama theatre. Maxim Gorky in Leningrad (Honor Г. Д. Мдивани; 1938), the Odessa theater of Opera and ballet ("don-Кихот" Л. Ф. Минкуса, 1943), Moscow, Kiev, Saratov, and Baku.

Participated in the design of films at the Tbilisi film Studio: "My grandmother" К. А. Микаберидзе (1929, together with В. В. Сидамон-Эристами), "Arsen" (1937, together with Т. Г. Абакелия) and "Giorgi Saakadze" (1942-1943, together with М. Г. Гоциридзе, Л. С. Мамаладзе, Р. И. Мирзашвили, М. Э. Чиаурели).

was Engaged in easel painting: "the Sower" (1919), "the Stonemasons" (1919), "portrait of the wife (Е. А. Вачнадзе)" (1930-е), "Farmer" (1932), "Industrial landscape" (1933), "Girl with pigeons" (1933).

Since 1923 — participant of the exhibition (the First exhibition of the young artists in Tiflis). A member of a group of experimental artists "H2SO4" was Exhibited: the society of Georgian artists in Tiflis (1924); the Jubilee exhibition of art of the peoples of the USSR (1927), "the Construction and art of the national republics" (1932) in Moscow. Works were exhibited at international exhibitions: the anti-imperialist exhibition in Paris (1931, a division — "Nationalities of the USSR") in new-Йорке (1934).

Honored art worker of the Georgian SSR (1934). Memorial personal exhibitions were held in Moscow (1962). In 1959 в Tbilisi open House-музей И. И. Гамрекели.

Work is represented in many Museum collections, among them — State Central theatre Museum. А. А. Бахрушина in Moscow, home of the-музей И. И. Гамрекели in Tbilisi and other.

Sources:

1. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1972, vol. 2. S. 406-407.

2. The artists of the Russian theater. 1880-1930. Collection of Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Ростовских. Directory-резоне. Auth. CL. and comp. J. Э. Боулт. M., 1994. S. 112-114.