Iakob Nikoladze

Iakob Nikoladze
იაკობ ნიკოლაძე
Born	May 28 [O.S. May 16], 1876 Kutaisi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	March 10, 1951(1951-03-10) (aged 74) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Mtatsminda Pantheon
Alma mater	Stroganov School for Technical Drawing Odessa Art School of Drawing
Notable work	National symbols of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Style	Socialist realism
Awards	State Stalin Prize in Literature, Art and Architecture (1946, 1948) Order of the Badge of Honour (22 March 1936)

Iakob Nikoladze (Georgian: იაკობ ნიკოლაძე; May 28 [O.S. May 16], 1876, Kutaisi – March 10, 1951, Tbilisi) was a Georgian nobleman, sculptor and artist. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts from 1947.

Biography

By birth, he was a member of an old Georgian noble (aznauri) family of Nikoladze.

The Georgian National Museum, Iakob Nikoladze House Museum is dedicated to his works and was established after his death in his home-studio in his native town of Kutaisi. The museum houses sculptures, sketches, photo and documentary materials. He also designed the national symbols of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Awards and honours

• Professor (1934)
• People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1946)
• State prizes of the USSR (1946, 1948)
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the "Badge of Honour"
• Award of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Tiflis (1897)

References

• Georgian museums
• Russian Academy of Arts