ALEKSANDRE
TSIMAKURIDZE

Aleksandre Tsimakuridze (ალექსანდრე ციმაკურიძე. 1881-1954) was born Kvishkheti. From 1902 to 1904, he studied  painting and sculpture in school of the Caucasian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and was awarded a scholarship from the Society for Spreading of Literacy Among Georgians and later continued his art studies in Moscow

in the Stroganov Central Art and Industrial Institute as well as Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. 

From 1922 onwards, Tsimakuridze resided  in Tbilisi, where he taught painting at the Mose Toidze public art studio. From 1930 until his passing, he served as a professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.