Georgy Ovcharov

Georgi Ovcharow (also written Georgi Ovcharov , Bulgarian Георги Овчаров ; born April 20, 1889 in Silistra , Bulgaria ; † October 15, 1953 ibid) was a Bulgarian-German architect of the interwar period who was influenced by neoclassicism and the Stuttgart School .

Life

Ovcharow was born in the Danube town of Silstra in 1889 in the family of Radi Ovtscharow. His father was a civil engineer. In 1911 Owtscharow began to study architecture at the Technical University of Munich under Paul Bonatz . After graduation, Ovcharow returned to Bulgaria. He took part in the First World War and moved to Sofia when it ended.

In the Bulgarian capital he became a member of the influential club of intellectuals . There he made friends with the writer Elin Pelin , as well as with Aleksandar Balabanow , Andrei Nikolow and others. Soon Ovcharow belonged to the circle of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III. The tsar was also the client of the first major contract for Ovcharow: two residential buildings for the tsar's summer residence in Euxinograd . In 1926 Ovcharow designed the house with a studio and the workers' hospital in Sofia for the writer Sirak Skitnik .

Town hall in Burgas

In 1928 Ovcharow took part in the tender for the new building of the Agricultural Faculty of Sofia University . However, the order was secured by the German architect Hermann Bucher , who commissioned Ovtscharow with the execution. In the following years he worked across the country. Among his neoclassical works of this period are the Town Hall (1936) in Burgas and the State Music Theater building (1938) in Sofia.

After the end of the Second World War and the communists seized power in Bulgaria, he was entrusted with the construction of the Georgi Dimitrov mausoleum for the late communist leader Georgi Dimitrov .

His last work was the Giurgiu-Russe Friendship Bridge , the completion of which he did not live to see. Georgi Ovcharow died on October 15, 1953 in his hometown.

Famous works

The Friendship Bridge, taken from the Bulgarian side

• Residential buildings in Euxinograd
• House and studio of the writer Sirak Skitnik in Sofia (1926)
• Workers' hospital in Sofia (1926)
• Faculty of Agriculture, Sofia University (1927–1930)
• Ministry of Interior in Sofia (1936)
• Wheelhouse building in Burgas (1936)
• State Music Theater in Sofia (1938)
• Employment office in Plovdiv (1938)
• Military publishing house in Sofia (1940-1944)
• Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (1949)
• Giurgiu-Russe Friendship Bridge (1953)

Web links

Commons : Georgi Ovcharow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Owsctharowi family (bulg.)