Boris Angelushev

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Boris Dimitrov Angelushev ( Bulgarian Борис Димитров Ангелушев ; born October 25, 1902 in Plovdiv , † August 24, 1966 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian graphic artist.

Life

Angeluschew lived in Germany from 1923 . From 1924 to 1928 he studied at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . He joined the KPD and published political graphics and caricatures under the pseudonym Bruno Fuk and Bruno Fuck in closely related magazines Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung , Die Rote Fahne and Eulenspiegel . In 1928 he was one of the founders of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists . Angelushev left Germany in 1933. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in Prague and Zurich in exile until he returned to Bulgaria. When the communists came to power in Bulgaria on September 9, 1944, Angelushev had new opportunities to work in his homeland. In Bulgaria he also worked as a stage designer and painter and designed posters. In the 1940s, he designed a simplified version of the Sofia city coat of arms .

Angeluschew was awarded the Georgi Dimitrov Order and the Dimitrov Prize.

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