Niko Pirosmanashvili

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Niko Pirosmanashvili, better known as Niko Pirosmani, was a Georgian self-taught primitivist painter celebrated for his simple, expressive depictions of everyday life and folk culture.

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Niko Pirosmanashvili canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
naïve artist
painter
primitivist painter
alsoKnownAs Nikala
Niko Pirosmani
artisticStyle flat perspective
limited color palette
simple forms
strong outlines
burialPlace Tbilisi
commemoratedBy Georgian banknotes featuring his art
Niko Pirosmani House-Museum in Mirzaani
surface form: Niko Pirosmani Museum in Mirzaani

monuments in Tbilisi
countryOfCitizenship Georgia
dateOfBirth 1862
1862-05-05
dateOfDeath 1918
1918-04-05
depicted Georgian taverns
animals
everyday life in Georgia
merchants
nobility
religious themes
ethnicGroup Georgians
fieldOfWork animal painting
folk art
genre painting
painting
portrait painting
gender male
hasHeritage Georgian cultural heritage monument (as artist)
hasWorkInCollection Georgian National Museum (main building)
surface form: Georgian National Museum

Louvre Museum
National Gallery of Georgia
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
surface form: Pushkin Museum

State Museum of Oriental Art
influenced Georgian modern art
naïve art in the Soviet Union
influencedBy Georgian folk culture
Russian icons
surface form: Orthodox Christian iconography
languageOfWork visual art
livedIn Tbilisi
movement Naïve art
Primitivism
name Niko Pirosmanashvili self-link
nativeLanguage Georgian
notableWork A Fisherman in a Red Shirt
Actress Margarita
Feast of Five Princes
surface form: Feast of the Elders

Georgian Wedding
Giraffa camelopardalis
surface form: Giraffe

Roe Deer
Tatar Camel Driver
The Black Lion
The Drinking Party
Feast of Five Princes
surface form: The Feast of Five Princes

The Giraffe
The Organ Grinder
The Railway Station at Night
The White Cow
occupation decorative painter
painter
signboard painter
patron Dmitry Shevardnadze
Ilia Zdanevich NERFINISHED
Kirill Zdanevich NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth მირზაანი
surface form: Mirzaani

Russian Empire
Tiflis Governorate
placeOfDeath Russian Empire
Tbilisi
Tiflis Governorate
primaryMedium oil paint
primarySupport black oilcloth
recognizedPosthumously true
regionOfBirth Kakheti
selfTaught true
workedAs herdsman in childhood
innkeeper
railway worker
servant in Tbilisi

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Niko Pirosmani birthName Niko Pirosmanashvili
Niko Pirosmanashvili name Niko Pirosmanashvili self-link
Train in Kakheti creator Niko Pirosmanashvili