Elisaveta Georgieva Konsulova-Vazova

Place: Plovdiv

Born: 1881

Death: 1965

Biography:

Elisaveta Georgieva Konsulova-Vazova was a Bulgarian artist born in Plovdiv in 1881. She was one of the first women to become a professional artist in Bulgaria and is credited with being the first Bulgarian woman to paint a nude figure at the State School of Painting. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and specialized in portrait painting. Her models were often family members and friends. She was a member of the Society of Artists in Bulgaria and participated in the Fourth Exhibition of the Lada Society of South Slavic Artists in Belgrade in 1912. In 1919, she became the first woman artist to launch a solo exhibition in Bulgaria. In the late 1920s, she was one of the founders of a puppet theatre in Sofia and was the Bulgarian representative at the founding congress of UNIMA in Prague in 1929. She was also an art critic and published articles on Bulgarian culture and women's participation in the arts. She died in 1965.