Dechko Uzunov (1899 – 1986). Born on February 22, 1899 in Kazanlak, died on April 26, 1986 in Sofia. Student of Chudomir. In 1919, he was accepted as a student at the State Art and Industrial School (NHA) in the class of Prof. Petko Klisurov. When the general training course ended in 1922, Uzunov and his fellow student Ivan Penkov went to Munich to specialize under Prof. Karl von Maar. After returning to Bulgaria, he completed his education at the Academy of Arts in 1924, in the class of Prof. Stefan Ivanov, being taught by other masters of the brush – Tseno Todorov, Ivan Angelov, Nikola Marinov. From 1926 he worked as a staff artist in the Ministry of Education until 1932, when he began teaching painting at the Art Academy. He was an extraordinary professor from 1937, and a full professor from 1942 to 1963.
