Състояние: много доброОписание: Ivan Murkvichka was barely twenty - five when he
arrived in Bulgaria. A young Czech painter just
setting out in his profession, he had received his
education at the Prague High School of Drawing and
at the Art Academies in Munich and Prague. After
graduating he assisted Joseph Manesh in painting
the lobby of the Prague National Theatre in fresco,
drew portraits and took an active part in the
cultural struggle of the Czech people against the
policy of Germanization pursued by the autorities
of Austria - Hungary. Prompted by deep sympathies
for the kindred Bulgarian nation which at the
Berlin Congress had suffered the injust fate of
being carved up, in 1882 the impetuous uouth
settled in Plovdiv, the capital of Eastern Rumelia,
where he became a teacher in the local high school. ...
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