Stanislav Dospevski Art Gallery - Pazardjik is an independent museum institute whose main activity is the collection, preservation and promotion of movable cultural values of the fine arts.
The Gallery was established in 1963 as a department of the General People's Museum in Pazardzhik. In 1966 it united with the Stanislav Dospevski House Museum with decision No 50 / 02.08.1966 of PNA in the Stanislav Dospevski Art Gallery. The founder and first director of the gallery is the artist Tsvetan Radulov.
The Art Fund is structured in the following sections: "Painting", "Graphics and Drawing", "Sculpture", "Icons", as well as the collections "Stoyan Vassilev" and "Georgi Gerasimov". At the end of 2012, the basic fund was 2585. Inventory units are about 10,000 works with the collections.
The gallery has two branches: the Stanislav Dospevski house-museum and Georgi Gerasimov house-museum.
The Art Gallery was the initiator and host of national performances: OCI "April 1876", "Painting Portrait", "Self Portrait Painting", "Generations", "Style", "Levski and Time". It attended galleries in the country, arranging exhibitions abroad: Stavpol (1974), Ulan Bator (1986), Cyprus (1987), Damascus (1989), Algeria (1990).
(1978,1988), Stanislav Dospevski (1973,1984), Elisaveta Konsulova - Vazova (1982), Anna Kramer - Behar (1989), Velichko Minekov (1989), and Georgi Gerasimov (1966) (1998,2008).
The gallery is a cultural center, which has four exhibition halls open to joint projects with other galleries, artists and organizations from the country and abroad. It is a preferred space for intellectual and educational events.
Source: http://www.pazardjik.wwehd.info/
Translation Yordan Georgiev - trainee
