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The house-museum of Georgi Velchev is dedicated to the work and life of the Bulgarian painter, who worked mainly in the genre of portrait and landscape. The artist's favorite subject was the shores of Bulgaria, washed by raging waves under a gusty wind.

Velchev was born in Varna in 1891, here at the school of drawing he received his primary education in painting, after the war he moved to France, where he studied with prominent professors of the Academy of Painting - Bonara and Amanda. The canvases of Georgy Velchev were exhibited in addition to Bulgaria in Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden. For seven years, the artist traveled across America, visited Hawaii, and also visited Australia. Since 1931 he began to live again in his homeland, where he died in 1955.

The artist's home in 1961 was donated to the administration of Varna by Velchev's relatives - brother Vladimir and sister Pavlina. In the same year, a memorial museum was opened in the building. In 1995, the house-museum underwent a complete reconstruction, and the artist's paintings were mostly restored.

The museum fund has more than 240 canvases by the artist, of which 50 are on permanent display at the house-museum. In addition to the permanent exhibition, monthly exhibitions of the classics of Bulgarian painting and the most distinguished representatives of the artistic elite of modern Bulgaria are organized here. The house-museum also takes part in a number of international cultural projects. In particular, the museum is the initiator of the August in Art festival dedicated to contemporary art.

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