Тръпко Василев (1876 – 1970)
Trupko Vasilev (1876 – 1970), “Path to the Village”, 1956
Detailed information
A kind of art
painting
Category
Landscape
Period
1950s of the twentieth century
Author / years
Trupko Vasilev (1876 – 1970)
Title of the work
“Path to the Village”, 1956
Technique
Oil paints
Size
23 /31 cm.
Material
Cardboard
Inventory number
52
Location
Art Gallery “Elena Karamihailova”
Biographical data about the author
Vassilev, Trpko Vassilev Nakov, born on 14.03.1876, in the village of Lichishta, Greece. died on 09.11.1970, in Sofia. Trpko Vasilev is a Bulgarian artist, decorator, gallerist and patron who opened the first art gallery in Sofia in 1910. Trpko Vasilev was born in the Kostur village of Lichishta (today Polikarpi, Greece) in the Ottoman Empire in 1876. In 1906, he completed the general course at the State Drawing School in Sofia (today the Art Academy), where his teachers were the painters Petko Klisurov and Prof. Ivan Angelov. Vassilev’s main profession is a decorator, but his artistic heritage consists mainly of landscapes. In 1910, he opened the first art gallery in Sofia, which became known as the “Trapkova Gallery”. Despite his poor financial situation, Vassilev maintained the gallery for years and thus contributed a lot to the promotion of fine art in Bulgaria.
