Ivan Nenov

Ivan Nenov was a Bulgarian painter.

Biography

Nenov was born on May 17, 1902, in Sofia. He was the husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova. He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1940s his studio was destroyed in the Bombing of Sofia in [World War II|bombings of Sofia during World War II].
In the 1950s Nenov was prohibited from exhibiting his paintings, and dismissed from the Academy of Fine Arts for being a Formalist. Subsequently, he began working with clay.
Nenov died on April 9, 1997, in Sofia.
In 2012 the Sofia City Art Gallery held a retrospective of Nenov's work.