Bulgarian artist Nikola V"lchev was chiefly noted for his paintings of landscapes, figurative compositions and portraits. Within the realm of portraiture, V"lchev created large depictions of Bulgarian revolutionaries, theater actors and opera artists. According to Bulgarian art sources, his most acclaimed painting was titled “Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov at the Headquarters of the Uprising at Mikhailovgrad". The work concerns the events of a 1923 antifascist uprising in Bulgaria. In 1924 Ni...

Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, the origin of Nauka i Izkustvo (Science and Art State Publishing House) dates to at least the early 1950s. The publisher disseminated a variety of content over the years including topics on history, sociological science, natural science, motion pictures, music and theater. While its productivity was chiefly literature, occasionally the publisher emitted posters and ephemera.