Shalom Koboshvili

Shalom Koboshvili[a] (1876 – 1941) was a Georgian artist who specialised in drawings and paintings of Jewish life in Georgia.

Born to a poor family of Jews in Akhaltsikhe, Koboshvili was originally intended for the Rabbinate, but quit religious training at an early age.

After a varied career (in which around 1910 he is said to have met with the artist Niko Pirosmani)[1] he eventually became in 1937 a watchman at the newly established Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Museum in Tbilisi.

Koboshvili's work, which is all in a competent but naive style, is entirely devoted to scenes of Jewish life; sometimes painted in oils, sometimes in water colours on paper.

A retrospective exhibition of the works of Koboshvili was held at the Museum in Tbilisi in 2006.

Prayers in the Synagogue