Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev

Place: Targovishte

Born: 1879

Death: 1948

Biography:

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher. He graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Italy where his teachers included Andrea Tavernier and Giacomo Grosso. After returning to Bulgaria he worked as a teacher in Sofia until 1919, then with the Ministry of Education and Science (1919–1921). Between 1921 and 1940 he was a professor at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. Among his students were eminent Bulgarian artists such as Ilia Beshkov and Ivan Nenov.