HHenryk Hryniewski, photo Dmitri Yermakov, 1914
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Henryk Hryniewski

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Henryk Hryniewski

Tbilisi | Georgia
gruz. Tbilisi (თბილისი)

First name:

Henryk

Last Name:

Hryniewski

Parents:

Teodor Wincenty Hryniewski

Date of birth:

22-11-1869

Date of death:

04-03-1938

Age:

Profession:

social activist, architect, painter

Biography:

Henryk Hryniewski (1869-1937), born in Kutaisi, son of Teodor Wincenty Hryniewski, a clerk. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He studied for two years at the polytechnic in Karlsruhe. After returning to Georgia, in 1898, he settled in Tbilisi, where he was active in artistic, social and pedagogical activities. He created oil paintings, watercolours, occasional and theatrical scenery. He is the author of the images of saints for the iconostasis in the Kashveti St George temple. He was also an architect - he designed the building of the Noble Bank (now the Library of the Parliament of Georgia) with its decor. He also conducted research on medieval Georgian architecture. From 1902 he was a member of the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. He taught drawing at the Tbilisi School of Drawing. Later, after it was transformed into the School of Painting and Sculpture and then into the Academy of Fine Arts, he was its professor. In 1937 he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to death and executed on 4 March 1938.

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