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Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery

Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery
Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery

Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery is an art museum in Varna, Bulgaria.

About Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery

The Boris Georgiev City Art GalleryBulgarian: Градска художествена галерия „Борис Георгиев“, Gradska hudozhestvena galeria „Boris Georgiev“) is the municipal art gallery of Varna, Bulgaria.

The gallery has occupied its present building at 1 Lyuben Karavelov Street since 1944. It was named the Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery in 1999, in honour of Varna-born artist Boris Georgiev

Boris Georgiev (1888–1962).

The edifice of the Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery was opened in September 1885 as the building of the Varna Men's High School. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the building draws inspiration from medieval Northern European Brick Gothic. According to some researchers, Bulgarian National Revival master architect Gencho Kanev played an important part in the design of the edifice.

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Founded
1944

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