DOI Heft:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0190
BERLIN.—The Salon Rabl has been
having a show of new landscapes by Prof.
Carl Langhammer. Italian scenery with
thunderstorms, nocturnal night effects
and picturesque architecture are among the motives
BULGARIAN PEASANT STUDY. BY J. V. MRKVITCHKA
special object of reorganising therein the teach-
ing of drawing, which according to a ministerial
report was much more advanced at Philippopolis
than in the capital. Sofia, already the centre of
the political and intellectual life of the country,
became, soon after Mrkvitchka’s arrival, an art
centre as well. By organising an exhibition of his
pictures in the Salon of the “ Gymnasium ”—the
first show of the kind held in Sofia—the painter
excited wide interest in art, and from that date
the artistic movement in Bulgaria may be said to
have begun. In 1895, thanks to the energetic
intervention of Prof. J. Chichmarroff, the Society
of Artists and Art-lovers was founded at Sofia;
the illustrated journal “Isskoustvo” (“Art”) made
its appearance under the direction of Mrkvitchka
and his friend A. Mitoff. Finally, in 1906, the
then Minister of Public Instruction, M. K.
Velitchkoff, poet and art-lover, established in Sofia
a School of Fine Arts for the purpose of creating a
foyer artistique, and thus promoting the develop-
ment of national art in the country. Mrkvitchka
was made Director of the school, and still holds
that post.
Several icons from the artist’s brush have been
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Studio- Talk
executed in the old style, to show those students
at the school who are specialising in iconography,
which plays so large a part in the ritual of the
Eastern Church to which Bulgaria as a nation
adheres, how one can adapt modern painting to the
old Bulgaro-Byzantine style. During the last few
years he has successfully attempted decorative paint-
ing. A little while ago he decorated the walls of the
Agricultural Bank at Sofia, and more recently he
has been occupied in adorning a mausoleum at
Bucharest. Mrkvitchka received the gold medal
at the Paris Exhibition in 1900 and at St. Louis
in 1904, which proves that his works are as highly
esteemed abroad as in Bulgaria itself. O. G.
BY J. V. MRKVITCHKA
having a show of new landscapes by Prof.
Carl Langhammer. Italian scenery with
thunderstorms, nocturnal night effects
and picturesque architecture are among the motives
BULGARIAN PEASANT STUDY. BY J. V. MRKVITCHKA
special object of reorganising therein the teach-
ing of drawing, which according to a ministerial
report was much more advanced at Philippopolis
than in the capital. Sofia, already the centre of
the political and intellectual life of the country,
became, soon after Mrkvitchka’s arrival, an art
centre as well. By organising an exhibition of his
pictures in the Salon of the “ Gymnasium ”—the
first show of the kind held in Sofia—the painter
excited wide interest in art, and from that date
the artistic movement in Bulgaria may be said to
have begun. In 1895, thanks to the energetic
intervention of Prof. J. Chichmarroff, the Society
of Artists and Art-lovers was founded at Sofia;
the illustrated journal “Isskoustvo” (“Art”) made
its appearance under the direction of Mrkvitchka
and his friend A. Mitoff. Finally, in 1906, the
then Minister of Public Instruction, M. K.
Velitchkoff, poet and art-lover, established in Sofia
a School of Fine Arts for the purpose of creating a
foyer artistique, and thus promoting the develop-
ment of national art in the country. Mrkvitchka
was made Director of the school, and still holds
that post.
Several icons from the artist’s brush have been
168
BULGARIAN PEASANT STUDY
Studio- Talk
executed in the old style, to show those students
at the school who are specialising in iconography,
which plays so large a part in the ritual of the
Eastern Church to which Bulgaria as a nation
adheres, how one can adapt modern painting to the
old Bulgaro-Byzantine style. During the last few
years he has successfully attempted decorative paint-
ing. A little while ago he decorated the walls of the
Agricultural Bank at Sofia, and more recently he
has been occupied in adorning a mausoleum at
Bucharest. Mrkvitchka received the gold medal
at the Paris Exhibition in 1900 and at St. Louis
in 1904, which proves that his works are as highly
esteemed abroad as in Bulgaria itself. O. G.
BY J. V. MRKVITCHKA