Konstantin Shtarkelov
Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov (March 20, 1889 – April 29, 1961) was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia. Shtarkelov began studying art at the State School of Drawing in Sofia in 1906.
Also recorded as Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov
Konstantin Shtarkelov
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- Name
- Shtarkelov Konstantin
- Born
- 20 March 1889
- Birthplace
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Died
- 29 April 1961
- Field
- Painting, Watercolor, and Realism
- Nationality
- Bulgaria
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- National Academy of Arts
- Teachers
- Ivan Mrkvička
- Honours
- Order of Saint Alexander · Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-apostles
- Languages
- Bulgarian
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Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov (March 20, 1889 – April 29, 1961) was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia. Shtarkelov began studying art at the State School of Drawing in Sofia in 1906.
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In 1889 he moved to Odesa, where he performed as a singer and lived in a monastery. Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains. Represented in the collection by a landscape entitled Birch.
Konstantin Shtarkelov studied at National Academy of Arts. Training under Ivan Mrkvička is recorded. The recorded working language is Bulgarian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Distinctions recorded are Order of Saint Alexander and Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-apostles.
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• Name — Shtarkelov Konstantin • Born — 20 March 1889 • Birthplace — Sofia, Bulgaria • Place of death — Sofia, Bulgaria • Died — 29 April 1961 • Field — Painting, Watercolor, and Realism
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- 1.Пантеизъм и декоративност. liternet.bg.
- 2.Щъркелов, Константин Георгиев (1889 – 1961). Информационна система на Държавните архиви.
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- Енциклопедия на изобразителните изкуства България в 3 тома, т. 3 (С-Я). Институт за изкуствознание на БАН, Академично издателство „Проф. Марин Дринов“, София, 2006.
- Константин Щъркелов, „Животоописание“, ИК „Парнас“, С., 1999.
- Чудомир, Дневник (1947 – 1967), ЕИ „LiterNet“ Варна, 2004
- Чудомир. Писма от Голо бърдо. (Кореспонденция, документи, пародии и карикатури). Съставител Цочо В. Билярски. (София: изд. ИК „Синева“, 2005, ).
- Александрова, Ивайла. Оловна тишина. Историята на един разстрел (Пловдив: изд. „Жанет 45“, 2022, ), с. 593-594, 596-599, 603-609.
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