Ivan Nenov () (1902–1997) was a

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Biography

Nenov was born on May 17, 1902, in Sofia. He was the husband of

Ekaterina Savova-Nenova Ekaterina Savova-Nenova ( bg, Екатерина Савова-Ненова; 1901–1980) was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria.

. He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1940s his studio was destroyed in the bombings of Sofia during World War II. In the 1950s Nenov was prohibited from exhibiting his paintings, and dismissed from the Academy of Fine Arts for being a Formalist. Subsequently, he began working with clay. Nenov died on April 9, 1997, in Sofia. In 2012 the Sofia City Art Gallery held a retrospective of Nenov's work.

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