David
Nestorovich Kakabadze

[8(20).8.1889, S. Kukhi, now Tsulukidzis district of the Georgian SSR, — 10.5.1952, Tbilisi], a Soviet painter. He studied in St. Petersburg (1910-15) at the L. E. Dmitriev-Kavkazsky. In 1919-27 he lived in France. In 1928-48 taught (1934 Professor) at the Tbilisi Academy of arts. For the works of C., characterized by decorative, characterized by harmonious combination of clearly limited color planes, the rigor and accuracy of drawing. Works: "self Portrait with pomegranates" (1913): "Imereti still life" (1918), "Ringes" (1934) — both in the art Museum of the Georgian SSR, Tbilisi; series "Svaneti" (pencil, gouache, 1939). K. worked as a theater artist.

In 1928 he returned to Georgia. He taught at the Tiflis Academy of arts, designed the theater. A member of the "Society of Georgian artists". Played a major role in the development of national art schools of Georgian art. A landscape painter, portraitist, genre painter. Created sketches from the life of Imeretian peasants. Under the influence of French and Russian cubism has created a series of experimental compositions of wood, glass, metal.. Creative Kakabadze also partly akin to the French Dadaists who followed the principle of "automatic writing" and expressing the absurdity of the visible world. His works are in State art Museum of Georgia, Kutaisi art gallery, Theatre Museum of Georgia, etc.

Born in the village of Kukhi, near Kutaisi 8 (20) August 1889 in a peasant family. In 1909 he entered the physico-mathematical faculty of St. Petersburg University; in 1910-1915 studied in art Studio of L. E. Dmitriev-Kavkazsky. In 1914 together with P. N. Filonov has established the group "Intimate Studio painters and draftsmen" that issued the Manifesto Made the picture, which was first proclaimed a avant-garde principles of "analytical art" (known primarily on the works of Filonov). Along the way, already in its early years acted as a national expert on the art of antiquity, prepared in 1914, the first scientific essay about the medieval chaser the Beck Opizari. For "Imeretin period" Kakabadze (1911-1919) is characteristic of the epic motifs of the Caucasian nature, is resolved in the symbolically-generalized spirit of art Nouveau (Imereti – my mother, 1918, the art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi).

In 1919-1927 he lived in Paris. Studied the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire under the leadership of Jean-françois millet. Combined modern (in the landscapes of Paris and Brittany) with an avant-garde experiments, which became the original version postfuturistika transition to abstract-kinetic art. In the controversy with the Cubists argued that only curved, the dynamic line can embody a modern "spirit of machinism". Introduced in their collages, mirrors, lenses, shiny metal, in an effort to effect internal light emitted by the product; in 1923 became one of the inventors of stereoscopic, designing and patenting camera, giving the illusion of an embossed image. Outlined his theory in books About constructive picture; Paris. 1920-1923 years; Art and space, published in 1922-1925 in Paris at the French (first) and Georgian languages.

In 1927 he returned home, he combined the national romantic themes of his "Imeretin period" with the canons of socialist realism. Successfully worked as a teacher at the Tbilisi Academy of arts (1928-1948), as well as an artist of theatre and cinema. In 1934 he made a documentary film Artistic monuments of Georgia.

Kakabadze died in Tbilisi on 10 may 1952.