Mi.No. 2675 Bulgarien
1978, 29. April. 100. Geburtstag von Andrej Nikolov. RaTdr.;
gez. K 13:13.
cws) A. Nikolov (1878-1959), Bildhauer: Geist und Natur
(Skulptur)
Auflage: 120 000 Stuck
PAINTER - ST. KANCHEV
Art, Sculptures, Famous men, nude woman
Andrey Nikolov
(b Vratza, 29 April 1878; d Sofia, 17 Dec 1959). Bulgarian
sculptor and teacher. After graduating in 1903 from the National
Academy of Arts (Natsionalna Hudozhestvena Academia) in Sofia, he
continued his education until 1907 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,
Paris, as a student of Antonin Mercie. Here he learnt to work in
marble, sculpting in a realistic manner. From 1914 to 1927 he lived
in Rome, where he executed primarily portraits and nude figures
(e.g. Nude Female, 1919; Sofia, N.A.G.). He also created an entire
series of sculptures of well-known Italian actors and actresses
(e.g. Valentina, 1919; Sofia, artist´s estate). He won recognition
as an artist with a series of refined and intimate portraits of
young women and of children (e.g. Child´s Dream, 1916; Sofia,
N.A.G.); in these he revealed the internal state of being of the
figure and captured the subtle nuances of motherhood and the purity
of a child´s experiences. In 1922 he held his first exhibition in
Sofia, although he did not return permanently to Bulgaria until
1927. As well as women and children, Nikolov sculpted statues and
busts of well-known Bulgarian figures in the world of arts and
literature (e.g. the poet Stoyan Michaelovsky, 1912, and Vladimir
Dimitrov-Maistora, 1930; both Sofia, N.A.G.). He executed the
Monument to Those Who Perished in the 1885 War (1909) in Vidin,
north-west Bulgaria, and the figure of the lion on the Monument of
the Unknown Soldier in Sofia. From 1931 to 1940 he was a professor
of sculpture at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. He is
considered to be one of the first important 20th-century Bulgarian
sculptors to work in marble, and his work had an influence on the
succeeding generation of artists.
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