Rainov, Nikolay

Date born:   1889

Place Born:   Kessarevo

Date died:   1954

Place died:   Sofia, Bulgaria

Critic, administrator, painter, illustrator, and historian of Bulgarian art. Rainov received degrees from the Ecclesiastical Seminary in Sofia and the University of Sofia. He graduated from the Academy of Art in Sofia in 1919, and held his first one-man exhibition in Plovdiv in 1922. He later moved to Paris, where he made wood-engravings and linocuts using allegorical and mythical symbols. Rainov published over 40 volumes of art historical research, including a dictionary of art (1928), a history of art and architecture, and a book about Bulgarian portraiture (1922). He subscribed to the principles of Art Nouveau and Symbolism, and incorporated these principles into the illustrations that he designed for his books. LMW

Home Country:  Bulgaria

Sources:  The Dictionary of Art

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