Проектът „Българските художници и Мюнхен” – предизвикателства и нови открития
The Project Bulgarian Artists and Munich – Challenges and New Discoveries

Summary/Abstract: The two hundred year anniversary of the Munich Academy provoked us to return again to this important for Bulgarian art studies topic – the topic of Munich as an art city that has attracted the greatest number of Bulgarian artists; the topic of Bulgarian art created by the Munich graduates, about cultural contacts and ties, about mastering European art traditions, about influences and tendencies, that have made an imprint not only on the work of each author but on many directions in the development of Bulgarian art . The exhibition Bulgarian Artists and Munich, organized by the Sofia City Art Gallery, has a number of focal points . First of all this is the Academy as the space for study, but also as a metaphor of Munich as an artistic center . Of special interest to us was to discover in the depots of Sofia’s galleries copies, made in the pinakoteques by E . konsulova- Vazova, N . Mihailov, Hr .Kazandziev, St . Egarov, Ivan Enchev-Vidio . Another logical center of the exhibition presented the city of Munich from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th – with its atmosphere reflected in the photographs and symbolic for the Bavarian capital toposes. They are presented by documentary photos and except from the legendary magazines Simplicissimus and jugend, by Pascin’s paintings - originals and reproductions in Simplicissimus, made especially for the satirical magazine . Тhe names of the Bulgarian graduates from Munich аre of key ones in Bulgarian art . But regardless of how much we think we know about their life, nevertheless we find out that the information we have is either incom - plete or sometimes not correct . A starting off point in our work were the register books from the archive of the Munich Academy . The detailed examination of the manuscripts led to the discovery of new names, such as Teodor Dobrinovich, Vasil Naidenov, Ivan Vasilev, Nikola kanov, Alexander Obretenov, Dimitar Petkov, konstantin Anelov. I would like to mention also the names of the painters Stefan Egarov, Hristo kazandziev, Petar kantemirov that would have to be studied in more detail .

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