Ivan Kirkov
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Ivan Kirkov (Bulgarian: Иван Кирков) (1 January 1932 – 19 September 2010) was a Bulgarian painter and illustrator. He graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia.[1] He later taught there.[2]
In 2022, a symposium was held on his work, The lighted roads - 90 years of traces of the art of Ivan Kirkov.[3]
He was an artist of the Plovdiv School.[4]
He produced set designs for theatre during the 1970s.[4]
His paintings include Woman in Red, which is in Plovdiv Art Gallery.[5]
He has been described as one of "our [Bulgarian] artists, so famous here but ignored abroad", with other artists including Svetlin Rusev.[6]
