Zlatyu Boyadjiev

Zlatyu Boyadjiev is a famous Bulgarian painter. He was born on October 22, 1903 in the village of Brezovo, district of Plovdiv. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia in 1932. He worked in the field of portrait and landscape. His life was marked by two different periods. The first period could be described with preference towards subject pictures and portraits and style influences typical of the Holland art in 16–17 centuries. Some subject paintings of this period are - "Esen" ("Autumn") - 1941, "Na nivata" ("In the Field") - 1943 and "Svinarka" ("Pig-tender") - 1945. In 1951 he went through terrible illness – paralysis of his right hand. In a few years he started to paint again but with his left hand and he showed himself as a completely different artist, with new style and new expressions. His work from the second period was distinguished by an expressive manner of painting combined with enchanting images and compositions of country life - "Selo Brezovo" ("The Village of Brezovo") - 1959, "Kam Klanitzata" ("To the Slaughterhouse") - 1960, "Na trapezata" ("On the Table") - 1967 and many others. He died on February 2, 1976 in Plovdiv. Some of his paintings are in the possession of the National Art Gallery - Sofia, the Art Gallery in Plovdiv, many galleries in Bulgaria and Europe and private collections.