Ilia Beshkov Art Gallery (Pleven)

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Starting with the year 1958, at the initiative of the artists from the city, as a branch of the History Museum – Pleven, is accommodated in a space specially built, the Art gallery Ilia Beshkov in 1978, on the Skobelev Blvd № 1.
The permanent exhibit of the Art Gallery “Ilia Beshkov” offers an idea upon the principal stages and tendencies in the Bulgarian art from the end of the 19th century until the years 70 of the 20th century. It was started even in the period of post – liberation, with the names of the pioneers Nikolay Pavlovich, Anton Mitov and Ivan Markvichka, and it is passed through one of the most known masters of the brush: Stefan Ivanov, Orphan Wanderer, Vladimir Dimitrov – the commander, Dechko Uzunov, Vasil Barakov, Bencho Obreshkov, Ilia Petrov, Nenko Balkanski, Stoyan Venev, Kiril Tsonev, Boris Ivanov, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Kiril Petrov, Vera Nedkova, Slavka Deneva, Ivan Nenov, Nayden Petkov and it is reached to remarkable names from the Bulgarian contemporary painting, whose enumeration would occupy to much space.
In this refined ensemble there are presented the compositions of the authors whose work represents the new Bulgarian sculptor: Ivan Lazarov, Petar Balabanov, Marko Markov. A special attention is given to the creative patrimony of one of the most known authors from Pleven, the sculptor Angel Spasov (1884 – 1974) whose complete work can only be seen in the Art Gallery “Ilia Beshkov”.

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