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Първите български възпитаници на Академия "Албертина" в Торино
The First Bulgarian Graduates of Academia Albertina di Torino

Author(s): Snezhana Karlukovska
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Visual Arts
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Academia Albertina di Torino has played a particular role in establishing the new Bulgarian art through in Bulgarian graduates. These are several consecutive generations of artist at the end of the 19th and the​ beginning of the 20th century. Up to now, there has been no complete evaluation of their place and role as a group in the studies of Bulgarian art history. The article deals with the first wave of artists (Georgi Mitov, Zahari Zhelev, Dragan Danailov, Christo Berberov, Christo Guntchev) who attempted to renew Bulgarian genre painting in the direction of the late Romanticism and partly introduced the new means of expression of Italian Divisionism into Bulgarian art. Being ahead of the time (especially those who settled in the provinces) these artists did not succeed in their full-value realization in their homeland. Their contribution does not mark a major trend in Bulgarian painting. As significant figures, they are not present in the major works of Bulgarian art. This study of their creative achievements throws new light on the first sprout of Romanticism and Symbolism in Bulgaria as well as on the influence of Italian painting of the 19th century and particularly of the Lombardian school with its distinguished representatives (Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, Gaetano Previati, Pelizza da Volpedo) on Bulgarian art after the Liberation (1878).Academia Albertina di Torino has played a particular role in establishing the new Bulgarian art through in Bulgarian graduates. These are several consecutive generations of an artist at the end of the 19th and the​ beginning of the 20th century. Up to now, there has been no complete evaluation of their place and role as a group in the studies of Bulgarian art history. The article deals with the first wave of artists (Georgi Mitov, Zahari Zhelev, Dragan Danailov, Christo Berberov, Christo Guntchev) who attempted to renew Bulgarian genre painting in the direction of the late Romanticism and partly introduced the new means of expression of Italian Divisionism into Bulgarian art. Being ahead of the time (especially those who settled in the provinces) these artists did not succeed in their full value realization in their homeland. Their contribution does not mark a major trend in Bulgarian painting. As significant figures, they are not present in the major works of Bulgarian art. This study of their creative achievements throws new light on the first sprout of Romanticism and Symbolism in Bulgaria as well as on the influence of Italian painting of the 19th century and particularly of the Lombardian school with its distinguished representatives (Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, Gaetano Previati, Pelizza da Volpedo) on Bulgarian art after the Liberation (1878).Academia Albertina di Torino has played a particular role in establishing the new Bulgarian art through in Bulgarian graduates. These are several consecutive generations of an artist at the end of the 19th and the​ beginning of the 20th century. Up to now, there has been no complete evaluation of their place and role as a group in the studies of Bulgarian art history. The article deals with the first wave of artists (Georgi Mitov, Zahari Zhelev, Dragan Danailov, Christo Berberov, Christo Guntchev) who attempted to renew Bulgarian genre painting in the direction of the late Romanticism and partly introduced the new means of expression of Italian Divisionism into Bulgarian art. Being ahead of the time (especially those who settled in the provinces) these artists did not succeed in their full value realization in their homeland. Their contribution does not mark a major trend in Bulgarian painting. As significant figures, they are not present in the major works of Bulgarian art. This study of their creative achievements throws new light on the first sprout of Romanticism and Symbolism in Bulgaria as well as on the influence of Italian painting of the 19th century and particularly of the Lombardian school with its distinguished representatives (Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, Gaetano Previati, Pelizza da Volpedo) on Bulgarian art after the Liberation (1878).

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 44-50
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian