Tomas Orbelli
Tomas Orbelli (16 February 1951 – 23 November 2019) was an architect and painter of Georgian origin.
Tomas Orbelli
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- Name
- Tomas Orbelli
- Born
- 16 February 1951
- Birthplace
- Tbilisi
- Died
- 23 November 2019
- Place of death
- Lviv
- Occupation
- Architect, painter
- Nationality
- Georgia · Ukraine
- Education
- Georgian Technical University
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Tomas Orbelli (16 February 1951 – 23 November 2019) was an architect and painter of Georgian origin.
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Tomas Orbelli was an architect and painter, a national of Georgia and Ukraine. The architect was born in Tbilisi and died in Lviv. Tomas Orbelli was educated at Georgian Technical University.
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• Name — Tomas Orbelli • Born — 16 February 1951 • Birthplace — Tbilisi • Died — 23 November 2019 • Place of death — Lviv • Alma Mater — Tbilisi Polytechnic Institute • Occupation — Architect, painter
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Tomas Orbelli was born on 16 February 1951 in Tbilisi. After graduating from the Tbilisi Polytechnic Institute, he designed a large number of museums, philharmonic halls, hotels, sanatoriums, restaurants, recreation centers, and residential areas in the Georgian cities of Batumi, Kutaisi, Telavi, Zugdidi, and Tbilisi. He has received national and international awards and prizes for his work. He studied painting with the Georgian painter Lado Gudiashvili. Later he moved to Lviv, where he worked as a street artist. He created primitivism-style paintings on cardboard, planks, and old records. He died on 23 November 2019 in Lviv. He was buried at the Yanivskyi Cemetery.
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Tomas Orbelli was born at Tbilisi.
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The documentary film "Lviv Pirosmani" (directed by Liudmyla Tymoshenko) was made about the life and work of Thomas Orbelli.
Могила художника Томаса Орбеллі,на Янівському цвинтарі.
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- 1.Вероніка Рой. У Львові прощатимуться із вуличним художником Томасом Орбеллі. Львівський портал. 2019-12-11.
- 2.Orbelli Tomas / S. I. Tsikhun // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Online] / Eds. : I. М. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. H. Zhelezniak [et al.] ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. – Kyiv : The NASU institute of Encyclopedic Research, 2022.
- 3.Андрій Бондаренко. Історія львівського Піросмані. Варіанти. 2017-08-04.
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