Irakli Ochiauri

Irakli Ochiauri (Georgian: ირაკლი ოჩიაური, Russian: Иракли Очиаури; November 20, 1924 – December 4, 2015) was a Georgian painter and sculptor[1] who was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize, the highest prize in Georgia in the fields of art and literature.

From 1945 to 1951 he studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts on the faculty of Sculpture first with professor Silovan Kakabadze and then with Iakob Nikoladze.

His first work, the portrait of Marine Kubaneishvili attracted attention when it was exhibited in Moscow and, thanks to this, Irakli Ochiauri became a member of the Union of Soviet Artists.

In the same 1953 Irakli Ochiauri exhibited his first embossing - Portrait of Iakob Nikoladze that is considered as the renaissance of the new Georgian Art of coining.

In addition to coining and sculpture he works in the fields of graphic arts and painting.