Elisaveta Georgieva Konsulova-Vazova was one of the first women to become a professional artist in Bulgaria.
18 Facts About Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova is credited with being the first Bulgarian woman to paint a nude figure at the State School of Painting and the first woman to host a solo exhibition in Bulgaria.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova's father was a merchant from Levski had in his early life been exiled to Izmir for political activities the 1860s, and supported the liberation of Bulgaria.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova's mother came from a well-to-do family of Tulcea.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova insisted that women be allowed to draw from nature, just as the men were.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova became the first woman at the school to both sketch nude models and paint nude portraits.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova's parents disapproved of his lack of status and they had to exchange letters through a classmate.
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Boris remained in Sofia, and Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova enrolled in classes under the tutelage of professor Henryk Knir.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova was well known for her realistic flower paintings and still lifes.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova was awarded the Grand Cross in recognition for her Red Cross work after the war and returned to her painting.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova began publishing articles evaluating trends in contemporary art, finding most of the avant-garde movements like Abstract, Cubism, Dadism, to be confused and expressed that they represented a "hatred for the values of the past".
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova was one of the founders of the "Slavia Beseda" Native Art Association, which included Karamihaylova, Konstantin Shtarkelov, Syrak Skitnik, and others.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova participated in a variety of cultural projects, such as the Czechoslovak-Bulgarian Reciprocity Association, created the first boarding house for Bulgarian students in Prague, was the only Bulgarian to participate in the 1929 Congress of the International Union of Puppet Actors and that same year, presented a paper on Bulgarian traditional costumes at the International Congress of Folk Arts held in Prague.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova wrote about women's political involvement, innovations in hygiene and nutrition, parenting, equal access to education, and critical evaluations of art and culture.
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In 1934 and again in 1935, Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova showed artworks in Sofia exhibits and in 1937 was awarded the medal "For encouragement to Humanity" in the second degree.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova continued publishing Beseda, but published translations of short stories and critiques in other journals and newspapers, including: Artist magazine, Day, Mir, Slovo, and Zora, among others.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova translated works by authors such as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Knut Hamsen, Jerome K Jerome, Sinclair Lewis, Axel Munthe, Richard Muther, Theodor Storm, and many others.
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Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova died on 29 August 1965 in Sofia, which at that time was in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.