Alexandre Bandzeladze (; 27 February 1927 – 13 June 1992) was a Georgian and Soviet modern artist who was notable as a painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. He was made an Honored Artist of Georgia (1965) and awarded the State Prize of Georgia (1993).
Alexander Bandzeladze was born in Tulun, Siberia, to a Georgian father and Estonian mother. His family, after having been exiled to the Irkutsk District during the repressions in the 1920s, returned to Tbilisi in 1932. In 1947, he enrolled in the Oil Painting Department of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts under the tutorship of Sergo Kobuladze, Iosif Charlemagne, and Valentin Sherpilov. Expelled from the academy in 1949, he received his diploma as late as 1963, with the help of Apolon Kutateladze. At that time, Bandzeladze actively collaborated with the editorial teams of various Georgian magazines. He authored milestone works for the development of Georgian book graphic design, such as Arsenas Leksi (Arsena's Poem) (1957) and Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli (1960). In 1978–1988, he painted the murals at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in .
In the 1950s, Alexandre Bandzeladze led an innovative movement in Georgia and the Soviet Union in general and pioneered the process of rejuvenating the language of visual arts. During his creative quest, and as a result of taking in the traditions of modernist European oil painting, he developed his own artistic system characterized by striking individualism. After Davit Kakabadze, Bandzeladze was one of the first to have returned abstract art into Georgia's artistic context.
His work was unknown in the West until 1987 because of repressive Soviet attitudes on non-standard expression in the arts.
Alexandre Bandzeladze's works have had an enormous impact on the development of contemporary Georgian visual arts and on nourishing interest in arts among younger generations.
Bandzeladze’s artworks are held in many public collections, including the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions 1991 "Dissident“, Sevikli, Pennsylvania, USA 1991 Georgian Abstractions, Nicholas Rerikh Museum, New York - New York, USA 1990 "Where am I...?", Amsterdam, Netherlands 1989 Sevikli, Pennsylvania, USA 1988 Basel, Brussels, Belgium 1968 Opava, Czech Republic
Group Exhibitions 2000 - N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 1992 - Mapini Art - Gallery, Sheffield, England 1991 - "Georgian Abstraction", "international image" Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA 1990 - "In the expression of watercolor," Tbilisi, Georgia 1990 - Four Design from Tbilisi, prideritsianis Museum, Kassel exhibition of abstract art. Cinema House, Moscow, Russia 1990 - "Georgia, My Love," Dumas kunst hale, Cologne, Germany 1990 - Georgian Art 1990, Mona Bismarck Foundation for International Art Exhibition House, Paris, France 1989 - "International image" Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA 1989 - Oriental Wave "Red - White," the Association "palette." Warsaw, Poland 1989 - 1920–1980 - ies of the Soviet Association palitra "Paris, beloruseti 1989 - Budenshati Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1989 - 1970–1980 years of the Soviet Russian avant-garde, the association "palette" Moscow, Russia 1988 - Exhibition of Soviet Artists Gallery bosmanis, Brussels, Belgium 1987 - Hermitage Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia 1987 - House of Artists. Tbilisi, Georgia 1986 - House of Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia 1972 - Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi 1966 - International Graphic Art Biennale, Brno, Czech Republic 1959 - Brussels, Belgium 1959 - Riga, Latvia, Lithuania 1957 - Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia 1957 - Manege, Moscow, Russia 1954 - Art Museum of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan 1953 - Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia 1949 - National Gallery of images, Tbilisi, Georgia 1949 - National Gallery of images, Tbilisi, Georgia
Details taken from the Georgian Art Portal.
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