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Nikolai Pavlovich (Bulgarian: Николай Павлович; 9 December 1835,
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Nikolai Pavlovich (Bulgarian: Николай Павлович; 9 December 1835, Svishtov
Svishtov ( bg, Свищов ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svishtov Municipalit ...
– 13 February 1894, Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
) was a Bulgarian Nationalist painter, lithographer and illustrator.
Biography
He was the son of , a teacher and writer of theBulgarian National Revival
The Bulgarian National Revival ( bg, Българско национално възраждане, ''Balgarsko natsionalno vazrazhdane'' or simply: Възраждане, ''Vazrazhdane'', and tr, Bulgar ulus canlanması) sometimes called the Bu ...
. His earliest works were illustrations for the ''Atlas Cosmobiographique'' and ''Atlas Meteorlogique''; books by Dr. Petar Beron
Dr. Petar Beron ( bg, Петър Берон) (c. 1799, Kotel – 21 March 1871) was a Bulgarian educator.
He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, known as the '' Fish Primer'' (Рибен буквар, ''Riben bukvar'') due to a dolphin ...
that were later published in Paris. With the money he made from them, he was able to study in Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...
, where he graduated in 1858.Jerome Stefanov, "Едно мнение за творчеството и мирогледа на Николай Павлович" (An Opinion About the Creativity and Outlook of Nikolai Pavlovich), in ''Проблеми на изкуство'' (Problems in Art), 1978, #4, pgs.48-52 His meticulous attention to detail, especially in his portraits, soon won him many offers of employment.
After his return to Svishtov, he also tried his hand at lithography, theater set design, home decoration and iconography
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...
, which included 73 icons for the Church of the Holy Trinity. He became the first modern-style history painter
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...
in Bulgaria, joining his father in promoting the Revival, and continued to do portraits. His best-known sitters included Tsvetan Radoslavov
Tsvetan Radoslavov Hadzhidenkov ( bg, Цветан Радославов Хаджиденков; 1863 – 1931) was a Bulgarian teacher and the author of the current national anthem of Bulgaria, '' Mila Rodino''.
Born in Svishtov in 1863, he gradu ...
(his nephew), Ivancho Hadzhipenchovich
Ivancho Velichkov Hadzhipenchovich (Bulgarian: Иванчо Величков Хаджипенчович; 1822, Ruse - 25 March 1894, Sofia) was an Ottoman and Bulgarian statesman. Among the many offices he held, he is perhaps best remembered for ...
and .
In the 1860s, he travelled to Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
, where he met Georgi Sava Rakovski
Georgi Stoykov Rakovski ( bg, Георги Стойков Раковски) (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an impo ...
and illustrated ''Няколко речи о Асеню първому'', a book of patriotic speeches. Despite these numerous revolutionary connections, Pavlovich chose not to participate in the new government after the liberation in 1878.
In 1885, he was a volunteer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War
The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War ( bg, Сръбско-българска война, ''Srăbsko-bălgarska voyna'', sr, Српско-бугарски рат, ''Srpsko-bugarski rat'') was a war between the Kingdom of Serb ...
. Four years later, he moved to Sofia, where he became a teacher at the "Софийска класическа гимназия", a high school for boys, remaining there until his death. The National Academy of Arts
The National Academy of Arts ( bg, Национална художествена академия) is an institution of higher education in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest and most renowned school of arts in the country.
History
The National ...
was named after him from 1951 to 1995.
References
Further reading
* Vera Dinova-Ruseva, ''Nikolai Pavlovich'', (from "The Pleiades Library") Foreign Languages Press, Sofia, 1966External links
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