Gallery-Museum Dechko Uzunov

Overview

Dechko Uzunov (1899 - 1986) was an artist whose powerful talent in painting, monumental art, drawing, scenography, applied graphics, and decorative art was very highly esteemed, both in Bulgaria and abroad.

His creative activities enjoyed public recognition throughout his life and combined with a number of other important commitments. He was a teacher of painting, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Rector of the Academy of Arts, Director of the National Art Gallery, Chairman of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, President of the International Association for Plastic Arts (AIAP). The centenary of his birth was included in UNESCO’s 1999 calendar celebrating great personalities and events of a worldwide dimension.

The gallery was opened in 1995 as a branch of the Sofia City Art Gallery. The building has been divided into two sections - an exhibition hall on the ground floor and an artist's studio on the second floor, where you can see his workplace. The two-storey building was used by Dechko Uzunov, not only for work but also for exhibitions until his death in 1986. Dechko Uzunov's last will was all his paintings to be exhibited in the same building.