Wassil Dimow
Wassil Dimow ( Bulgarian Васил Димов ; actually Wasil Dimow Wasilew, also Vasil Dimov) (born January 8, 1878 in Stara Sagora , † November 10, 1941 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian painter, restorer and art critic. Wassil Dimow attended the drawing school in Sofia from 1896 to 1898, the Art Academy in Rome in 1898/99 and the Art Academy in Florence in 1890/91 . In 1904/05 he worked as a restorer in Naples and Pompeii . Until 1920 worked as a drawing teacher at high schools in Sofia. He was involved in the transformation of the drawing school into an art academy and worked there from 1920 to 1932 as a teacher of methodology for artistic training and director of the museum and library. He has also worked as an art critic for magazines and newspapers.
As a painter, he mainly created impressionistic landscapes, as well as portraits and figurative compositions. He also created some mosaics for the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia and worked as a fresco restorer in Veliko Tarnovo .
Wassil Dimow, b. 1945
A draftsman and painter of the same name, born in Vienna in 1945 , now lives in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria after many years in Vienna . He has been a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus since 1984 . From 1992 to 2009 he was a teacher.
literature
- Svoboda Jähne: Dimov, Vasil . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , pp. 443 f.
Individual evidence
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^ Wassil Dimow - Flora Fellner Photography. In: florafellner.at, accessed on March 8, 2020. -
Künstlerhaus - Vereinigung - Members A – Z. Wassil Dimow ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: k-haus.at, accessed on March 8, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dimow, Wassil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Димов, Васил (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian painter, restorer and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stara Sagora |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1941 |
| Place of death | Sofia |