At the age of 69, one of the emblematic personalities of V. Tarnovo the artist Gancho Karabazhakov has left us, his relatives
announced
Karabazhakov was born on October 19, 1951 in Yambol. After graduating from the art high school in Kazanlak, his path continued s the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, where he studied “Illustration and artistic design of the book under Prof. Hristo Neykov. After graduating, he created dozens of monumental frescoes and developed his characteristic painting style In addition to being an artis Gancho Karabazhakov is also an active public figure. In 2001, he was briefly Deputy Minister of Culture. In the period 2008-2011, he was the director of the “Boris Denev art gellery in Veliko Tarnovo, and from the end of the same year he held the position of deputy mayor of the old capital, a position he neld until the middle of last year.