KRATCHKOV, Dimitar

1896 - 1973

Dimitar Krachkov was born in Bulgaria 1896 and received his initial artistic education at the Arts and Industrial School in Sofia 1913-1920. He then specialised at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria 1921-1922 and then enrolled in the Florence Academy of Art until 1928 and may also have studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1926, Dimitar Krachkov, together with the British artist Ida Southwell Perrin née Robins (1860–1953), held his first exhibition in London and on his next visit to London had two more exhibitions where he had on show black & white drawings, oil portraits and watercolors. In 1934 he returned to the Florence Academy of Art and during his stay at the academy, Krachkov became friends with the artist Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), who also attended Felice Carena's (1879-1966) painting courses. In 1937 he became a British national and lived in the United Kingdom until 1969 when he returned to his hometown of Lyaskovets, Bulgaria. Whilst Krachkov was living in Suffolk Annigoni made visits to his friend in March 1947 and painted a 'Portrait of Dimitar Krachkov' which was hung on the wall of his Suffolk home but most of Dimitar Krachkov's preserved letters to Anigoni are personal correspondence revealing their relationship as close friends. Two short articles of 18 November 1955 in the 'Ipswich Evening Star' and 'East Anglian Daily Times' about the participation of Krachkov in an exhibition dedicated to American pilots. Dimitar Krachkov’s early artistic works and works created in the United Kingdom are mostly unknown but his Suffolk home in Brandon was filled with many of his oil paintings and watercolors, but the whereabouts of these works are currently unknown. As Dimitri Kratchcoff, Krachkov exhibited at the Royal Academy from Heath House, Brandon, Suffolk in 1959, this was Dimitar Krachkov's only participation in their annual exhibition and there is no information about his other exhibitions in England. Around 1969 he returned to Sofia, Bulgaria, but soon after leaves Sofia and moves to his hometown of Lyaskovets. Dimitar Krachkov Dimitar Krachkov died in 1973.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from Heath House, Brandon, Suffolk
1959 1266 Florence – sepia

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Works by This Artist