Ucha Japaridze
Ucha Malakievich Japaridze (უჩა ჯაფარიძე, – 6 July 1988) was a Soviet and Georgian painter. He was born in Gari, a small village in the Racha region of Georgia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He enjoyed creating detailed portraits and is responsible for producing a series of portraits of prominent persons, such as his 1949 pencil and pastel sketch of Vano Sarajishvili, currently held at the Art Palace of Georgia - Museum of Cultural History in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Ucha Japaridze
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- Born
- 1906. · Gari.
- Died
- 1988. · Tbilisi.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Education
- Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.
- Honours
- Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Painter of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 and Order of the Badge of Honour.
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Ucha Malakievich Japaridze (უჩა ჯაფარიძე, – 6 July 1988) was a Soviet and Georgian painter. He was born in Gari, a small village in the Racha region of Georgia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He enjoyed creating detailed portraits and is responsible for producing a series of portraits of prominent persons, such as his 1949 pencil and pastel sketch of Vano Sarajishvili, currently held at the Art Palace of Georgia - Museum of Cultural History in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Ucha Japaridze (1906–1988) was a Soviet painter. Born in Gari, the painter died in Tbilisi.
Ucha Japaridze studied at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. The painter worked for Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and was a member of Artists' Union of the USSR. Ucha Japaridze received Order of Lenin, Order of the Badge of Honour and Order of the Red Banner of Labour, among others.
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Japaridze was given a number of awards during his life, including People's Illustrator of Georgian SSR (1946), Honored Worker of Arts of the Georgian SSR (1943), Academician of the Georgian Academy of Arts (1958), Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize (1987), and Honored Citizen of Tbilisi (1982). He was a chancellor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 1942 to 1948. He died in Tbilisi in 1988. His former home in Tbilisi was turned into a museum in the same year.
Ucha Japaridze is recorded as a citizen of Soviet Union. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre portrait. Classed in the genre graphics.
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1906
Ucha Japaridze was born on 17 August 1906.
1988
Ucha Japaridze died on 6 July 1988.
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- 1.Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Грузинской ССР О присвоении почетного званий работникам искусств. Zarya Vostoka. 50. 2. 7 March 1946.
- 2.Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Грузинской ССР О присвоении почетных званий работникам искусств Грузинской ССР. Zarya Vostoka. 8. 1. 10 January 1943.
- 3.О присуждении премии им. Руставели за 1987 год. Zarya Vostoka. 47. 1. 25 February 1987.
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Ucha Japaridze studied at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Ucha Japaridze received Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Painter of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of the Badge of Honour.
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