Ucha JAPARIDZE (Ilia) Malkiewicz

4 (17) August 1906 (Gary's village of Kutaisi province) — on 6 July 1988 (Tbilisi)

Painter, graphic artist

he Studied at Tiflis in the Humanities College at the same time — in folk art Studio М. И. Тоидзе (1922-1924), the Academy of arts of Georgia (1924-1925, 1928-1931) Е. Е. Лансере, В. Д. Гудиашвили, Д. Н. Какабадзе. In 1925 interrupted his studies and went to They where he taught drawing at the secondary school and teachers College.

he Lived in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Moscow (1933-1936). Travelled to Finland (1956-1957) and Czechoslovakia (1960), France (1960), Italy (1960, 1964), Germany (1965), Spain (1971). Author thematic paintings, portraits, landscapes: "the Sleeping shepherd" (1930), "Samari" (1931), "the Soldier on the farm" (1933), "Herder-тушинец" (1933), "the First aircraft in the Mountainous Racha" (1936), "Fellow travelers" (1936), "Friends of youth" (1936), "Portrait Ш. Руставели" (1937), "Young imartinez" (1939), "portrait of the composer З. П. Палиашвили" (1940), "David the Builder" (1942), "Call the wounded" (1942), "the Peasant from Sachkhere" (1944), "a Treat (the Treat is cherries)" (1948), "collective farm of Gary (Racine with a hammer from Gary)" (1951), "Woman with jug" (1955), "Farewell (Meeting)" (1957), "the Khevsurs" (1959), "Collective farm market" (1960-1961), "My fellow therefore" (1965).

Created a monumental mural "may day demonstration in Tiflis in 1901 году" (1939-1942; the Stalin (State) award) for meeting-зала Institute Marx — Engels — Lenin in Tbilisi.

Performed a series of works: based on the poem "the knight in the Panther's skin" Ш. Руставели (1966, tempera), "People of our village" (1970).

was Engaged in easel and book graphics. Worked in the techniques of etching, lithography. Created a series of travel sketches on trips to Czechoslovakia, France, Italy; a series of easel paintings based on the poem "Scenes from the life of a robber (Thief Kako)" И. Г. Чавчавадзе (1952, watercolor, pencil). Completed the design of books: "the Art of Georgia" (М.-Л., 1936), "Selected poems" Г. В. Табидзе (Moscow, 1937), "Besik" А. И. Белиашвили (TB., 1955), "Poems. Songs. Ballads" К. Р. Каладзе (M., 1957).

From 1924 — participated in exhibitions. A member and Exhibitor of the Association of revolutionary artists of Georgia "SARMA" (1929-1932). Member of the USSR Union of artists; Chairman of the Board of the Union of artists of the Georgian SSR (1954-1963, 1970-1973). Participated in exhibitions: "the October show" (1930), "20 лет Soviet Georgia" (1941), Georgian fine art (national art exhibition; 1946, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956), "Georgian Soviet poster and advertising. 1955-1961" (1961), "Soviet Georgia" (1961) in Tiflis (Tbilisi); "RCA XV years" (1933), "XX years of the red army and the Military-морского Navy" (1938), all-Union art exhibitions (1945 — "Heroic front and rear", 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1967), the works of artists of the Georgian, Azerbaijani, Armenian SSR (1955), 1-му all-Union Congress of Soviet artists (1957), the works of actual members, members-корреспондентов and honorary members of the USSR Academy of arts (1957, 1959, 1962, 1966), "Contemporary fine arts of the republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" (1961) in Moscow; "two Hundred years of the Academy of arts of the USSR" in Moscow and Leningrad (1958) and others.

participated in many international exhibitions: the world exhibition in Brussels (1958), in new-Йорке (1960), Warsaw (1963), Budapest (1964). His personal exhibitions were held in Sukhumi (1939), Tbilisi (1942, 1948, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1970), They, Kutaisi (both — 1962), Moscow, Garni (both — 1963).

he Taught at the art Academy of Georgia (1936), Professor (since 1944), the President (1942-1948). Head of Studio of painting of the USSR Academy of arts in Tbilisi (1969). Author of articles on art.

Honored art worker of the Georgian SSR (1943), people's artist of the Georgian SSR (1946), full member of Academy of arts of the USSR (from 1958), people's artist of the USSR (since 1963).

the Work presented in the State Tretyakov gallery, State Museum of art of peoples of the East, the State Museum of arts of Georgia.

Sources:

1. The state Tretyakov gallery. The collection catalogue. M., 2009, vol. 6, kN. 1. S. 320.

2. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1976, vol. 3. S. 359-360.