Piligrims from Samarkand' by Gigo Gabashvili

Gigo Gabashvili was a painter and a graphic artist. He studied at the Munich Academy of Arts. He was the first Georgian painter whose personal exhibition was held in Tbilisi 1891. By the order of an American millionaire Charles Kren Gabashvili created paintings about Caucasus in 1893. Thereafter he went to the Middle Asia and the main theme of his drawings became the East. After returning to Tbilisi, in 1897 Gabashvili founded the Art Studio. He was a teacher in the “Caucasus Academy of Fine Arts Encouraging Society” and also was a professor in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Gigo Gabashvili considerably contributed to the forming and development of the New Georgian Art, he inculcated not only genre diversity of the easel painting, but also the high professional of the realistic painting.