Dimitar Dobrovich

1816 (age 89)

Sliven, Sliven Municipality, Bulgaria

He was then tutored by French painter Pierre Bonirote before enrolling at the Greek Technical School of Arts, where he was a student of Italian painter Raffaello Ceccoli. lieutenant was at that time that Dobrovich started painting portraits under the Hellenized name Demetrios Dobriadis. In 1848, Dobrovich moved to Rome to enroll at the Rome University of Fine Arts. In the same year, he took part in Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini"s uprising and fought actively for three months. Dobrovich graduated from the academy five years later to become the first academically-trained Bulgarian artist. He returned to Bulgaria in 1893, when the country was an autonomous Principality of Bulgaria already liberated from Ottoman rule. He died in 1905 in his native Sliven.

Dimitar Dobrovich

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Background

Dobrovich was born in the northern Thracian city of Sliven, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a freeze dealer and a rich stock breeder"s daughter.

Education

In 1834–1837, he studied at the Phanar Greek Orthodox College in the imperial capital Istanbul, where he became an acquaintance of revolutionary Georgi Rakovski. Dobrovich continued his education in Athens, the capital of the Kingdom of Greece, where he attended a high school (1837–1840).

Career

He was then tutored by French painter Pierre Bonirote before enrolling at the Greek Technical School of Arts, where he was a student of Italian painter Raffaello Ceccoli. lieutenant was at that time that Dobrovich started painting portraits under the Hellenized name Demetrios Dobriadis. In 1848, Dobrovich moved to Rome to enroll at the Rome University of Fine Arts.

In the same year, he took part in Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini"s uprising and fought actively for three months.

Dobrovich graduated from the academy five years later to become the first academically-trained Bulgarian artist. He returned to Bulgaria in 1893, when the country was an autonomous Principality of Bulgaria already liberated from Ottoman rule.

He died in 1905 in his native Sliven.

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