Henryk Hryniewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henryk Hryniewski

Polish-Georgian artist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1869

Place of Birth: Kutaisi, Imereti, Georgia

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1938

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Henryk Hryniewski

  • Henryk Hryniewski (Georgian: ?????? ?????????; Russian: ?????? ?????????? ??????????) (1869–1937) was a Polish-Georgian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
  • He was also known as a scholar and an educator of traditional Georgian architecture.
  • He was arrested and put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • Few of his original work survive. Hryniewski was born into a family of an exiled Polish patriot in the western Georgian city of Kutaisi, then part of the Russian Empire.
  • From 1895 to 1898, he studied art and architecture at Florence and Karlsruhe.
  • In 1898, he settled in Tiflis (Tbilisi) where he painted and taught.
  • He directed the Tiflis Arts School from 1918 and 1921 and helped transform it into the Georgian Academy of Fine Arts, of which he became a professor in 1922 and vice-rector in 1927. Hryniewski was involved in the major cultural projects of the time; he was instrumental in organizing a museum of the history of Tbilisi and was a member of a special commission for protection of the city's cultural heritage.
  • He studied Georgian folk and church architecture and produced "Old Architecture of Georgia," an album of aquarelles, as well as a comprehensive analysis of traditional Georgian ornate art and a textbook on linear perspectives and theory of shadows.
  • Hrynievski’s illustrations regularly appeared in the Georgian press and in editions the works of leading Georgian writers, especially those of Ilia Chavchavadze.
  • He also created an iconostasis for the Kashveti Church of St.
  • George and coauthored the project of the Georgian Bank of Nobility office (presently the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia).
  • He opposed a program of ideological reforms in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (formerly the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts) pushed for by the Soviet authorities.
  • Hryniewski was arrested and shot in a 1937 repression wave.
  • NKVD officers destroyed his studio and a large number of his works.
  • Hryniewski’s wife Maria Perini (1873-1939), an Italian dancer and a founder of the first ballet studio in Tbilisi was immediately exiled from Georgia after her husband’s arrest.

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