Elka Bakalova

Elka Bakalova (also written Elka Bakalova , Bulgarian Елка Бакалова ; born December 8, 1931 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian art historian .

Elka Bakalowa studied Russian studies (graduated in 1964) and art history (graduated in 1964 from Viktor Lazarev ) at Moscow University . From 1970 to 2007 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Art History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. There she received her doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on wall painting in the ossuary of the Batschkowo monastery ; In 1990 she completed her habilitation. Since 2005 she has been a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2007 she was Professor of Art History at the New Bulgarian University . She has also taught at the University of Sofia and the University of Veliko Tarnovo .

Her main research area is medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine art.

Fonts (selection)

• Стенописите на църквата при с. Беренде. Publishing house Български художник, Sofia, 1976.
• Бачковска костница. Български Художник, Sofia, 1977 (Bulgarian with German summary: The grave church of the Batshkovo monastery ).
• Trésors d'art médiéval bulgare VII - XVI siècle [exposition]. Catalog. Benteli, Bern, 1988. ISBN 3-7165-0611-7 .
• with Todor Krestew: Les monastères orthodoxes dans les Balkans. Étude thématique. ICMOS, Paris, 1993.
• The ossuary of the Bachkovo monastery. Pigmaliom, Plovdiv, 2003. ISBN 954-8336-86-3 .

literature

• От Честния пояс на Богородица до коланчето за рожба. Изследвания по изкуствознание и културна антропология в чест на чл.-кор. Елка Бакалова / From the Holy Girdle of the Theotokos to the fertility belt. Studies in art history and cultural anthropology in honor of Prof. Elka Bakalova. Agata, Sofia, 2010. ISBN 978-954-540-069-8

Web links

• Article on the occasion of her birthday
• Literature by and about Elka Bakalowa in the bibliographic database WorldCat