DAVID KAKABADZE

David Kakabadze - დავით კაკაბაძე (1889-1952) was one of the founders of modern Georgian art: he worked as a painter, graphic artist, theater and film painter, and a creator of collages and sculptures, as well as being the inventor of stereo film projection equipment, and an instructor. David was born in 1889 in the village of Kukh in Imereti. Soon the family settled in Kutaisi and he started studying at the Kutaisi gymnasium. In 1910, he went to St. Petersburg to study at the Art Academy, but failed in the competition. After that, he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg University. At the same time, he had an artistic education in the Dimitriev-Kavkazsky workshop, and at the same time he was taking a course in the history of art at the university. From 1919 to 1927, Kakabadze lived and worked in Paris, and became a prominent figure of the global avant-garde art movement in the 1920s. He is one of the founders of biomorphic abstraction.