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Shalom Koboshvili
Shalom Koboshvili (b. Akhaltsikhe, 1876, d. Tbilisi 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. His interest in art was discouraged by his family, and he was originally apprenticed as a printer. All his knowledge of art was effectively self-taught. After a varied career (in which around 1910 he is
Jewish marriages, to Jewish festivals (including Succot and Yom Kippur), and to scenes of Jewish life in Georgian villages and on Jewish collective farms.
The Georgian Jewish Museum was forcibly closed in the 1950s and its contents, including the works of Koboshvili, were transferred to the National Museum of Georgia, to which they still belong. A retrospective exhibition of the works of Koboshvili was held at the Museum in Tbilisi in 2006.
References.
- Lela Tsitsuashvili, "Shalom Koboshvili (1876-1941) for