Portrait of Vakhtang Bakhtadze — courtesy of the web-site kino-teatr.ru (accessed: July 15, 2019).
Vakhtang Bakhtadze
, 1914 - 1991
Vakhtang Bakhtadze (Вахтанг Бахтадзе) was a Georgian animator and director. He was an honoured artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1933 he started to work on animation with Lado Mujiri at Goskinprom Gruzii and worked on the first Georgian animated film The Argonauts . At the same time he studied art at the Georgian Academy of Arts. He also studied philology at the University of Tbilisi. From 1950 he made his own animations, firstly as an assistant director, and from 1953 independently. His most famous character was Самоделкин (Makeshifter) – a robot-like figure made of a battery, screw, nut, and other parts of a construction set.
Sources:
Kapkov, Sergei, ed., Энциклопедия отечественной мультипликации [The Encyclopaedia of National Aniomation]. Moscow: Algoritm, 2006, 99–100.
Iakubovich, Odissei, Вахтанг Бахтадзе [Vakhtang Bakhtadze], Moscow: Vsesoiuznoe biuro propagandy kinoiskusstva, 1985.
Asenin, Sergei, Мудрость вымысла [The Wisdom of the Fantasy], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1983, 45–49.
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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