- Svetlin Rusev Donative Exhibition
The Svetlin Rusev Donative Exhibition ( _bg. Изложба-дарение „Светлин Русев“, "Izlozhba-darenie „Svetlin Rusev“") is a permanent art exhibition in
Pleven ,Bulgaria , including over 400 works of Bulgarian and foreign art donated by the noted Bulgarian artist and collectorSvetlin Rusev .The exhibition occupies the three-storey historic building of the former
public baths built in the 1900s and commissioned toNikola Lazarov , who combinedNeo-Byzantine ,Neo-Moorish and Ottoman elements in its design. It served as the city's public baths until 1970, and has been home to the exhibition since 1984, when Rusev donated 322 works of his collection of paintings and sculptures, in 1999 adding 82 more.Works of the best-known Bulgarian artists from the early 20th century are exhibited on the first storey. These include
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev ,Tsanko Lavrenov ,Sirak Skitnik ,Kiril Petrov ,Bencho Obreshkov ,Dechko Uzunov ,Vladimir Dimitrov , etc.The second storey mainly features contemporary Bulgarian painters, such as
Nikola Manev ,Vesa Vasileva ,Encho Pironkov ,Georgi Bozhilov , but also the oldest painting in the gallery, a 17th-century work by an unknown French author, as well as a painting byVienna Secession artist Josef Bauer.On the third storey, occupying the building's towers, one can see not only a collection of works of leading Bulgarian engravers such as
Iliya Beshkov , Vladimir Dimitrov andSidoniya Atanasova , but also famousWestern Europe an artists likePablo Picasso ,Francisco Goya ,Honoré Daumier ,Marc Chagall ,Maurice Denis ,Pierre-Auguste Renoir ,Salvador Dalí ,Renato Guttuso andEugène Delacroix , as well as small sculptures ofAuguste Rodin andEdgar Degas .References
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