Символистично-сецесионната линия в книжната графика на Иван Енчев-Видю (по примери от литературнохудожественaта периодика от края на XIX и началото на
Symbolism in Ivan Enchev-Vidiu’s Drawings (Literary and Art Magazines of the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century)

Summary/Abstract: Ivan Enchev-Vidiu (1882–1936) is associated with literary and art criticism, fiction and poetry of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century with his activity of an artist eclipsed by his literary activity. His cover designs and a number of vignettes, headers and drawings in the vein of the period’s most avant-garde art movement, Symbolism remain almost unknown and unstudied. European trained intellectual and Bohemian influenced by modern West-European trends, he had made a significant contribution to the modernization and Europeanization of literature and fine arts in this country. Ivan Enchev-Vidiu painted for big and well-established literary and art magazines: “Novo Vreme” (1897–1923); “Prosveta” (1901–1906, 1909–1911); “Proletna Zaria” (1904–1905) and “Novo Obshtestvo” (1906–1909) along with the most popular artists of the time, Alexander Bozhinov and Charalampi Tachev. His contribution to the magazines was typical and emblematic of modernism in Bulgaria in graphic design and illustration, making a difference. Ivan Enchev’s contribution to the magazines listed above is symptomatic of the fusion of fine arts and literature against a backdrop of technical achievements in printing industry and book design in the period. His work affords an opportunity to reconstruct a remote but significant period of the artistic and cultural history of Bulgaria in the context of a dynamic and changing Europe, of which this country is part and parcel.

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