{"product_id":"65226-niko-pirosmani","title":"Niko Pirosmani","description":"Niko Pirosmani is both a discovery and a legend. Still unknown to many, he is revered as a national artist in his home country of Georgia. Pirosmani's portraits and animal paintings, created around 1900 in Tbilisi, possess a peculiar expressiveness and great sensibility. His landscapes and everyday scenes draw on elements of medieval iconography and bear witness to a deep connection with his compatriots. At the same time, the avant-garde recognized a new, radical, and unknown form of painting in Pirosmani's work. Like Henri Rousseau or Marc Chagall, this autodidact is one of the exceptional, hard-to-categorize artists of early modernism. This catalog showcases Pirosmani's skill in numerous illustrations: how, with precise, sketchy brushstrokes on black oilcloth, he makes sparsely applied colors glow as if from a dark depth. Pirosmani was a master of concentration – and a storyteller. As expertly explained by Georgian art historians in the catalog, he was a singular artist, a contradictory figure, and an important part of the art scene in Tbilisi, which was then considered the \"Paris of the East.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is also available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/products\/65227-niko-pirosmani?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=a1353aa3d\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn into a peasant family, NIKO PIROSMANI (1862 – 1918) came to Tbilisi in 1870. Odd jobs and painting portraits or tavern signs helped him earn a modest income. In 1912, he attracted the attention of Georgian and Russian avant-garde artists, who presented his works a year later at the Mischén (Target) exhibition in Moscow alongside Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Marc Chagall. A planned exhibition in Paris was prevented by the outbreak of World War I. Pirosmani died in utter poverty in 1918. Today, he is considered Georgia's most famous artist.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45094556565768,"sku":"9783775755139","price":58.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755139_b3124b5e-f05c-4eec-86c2-6f53b7b8ecaa.jpg?v=1745308888","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/65226-niko-pirosmani","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}