Hristo Kavarnaliev

Hristo Kavarnaliev (8 May 1894 – 18 May 1951) was a Bulgarian painter and graphic artist. Born in Varna, he began his education at the Art Industrial School under Professor Ivan Mrkvichka. He organized his first exhibition in 1914 in Sofia.

During World War I he served at the front and participated in an exhibition of Bulgarian war artists in Germany. After the war he continued his studies in Germany (Munich, Berlin, Hamburg) and met Franz von Stuck. After his return to Bulgaria he became the founder of the House of Arts and Printing in Varna and collaborated with magazines such as "Vezni" and "Plamak".

In 1924–1937 he traveled and organized exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad (Moscow, Paris, Germany, Egypt). He is known for his landscapes, graphic works and cycles of his travels (Sozopol, Hamburg, Macedonia). After 1944 he was declared a "bourgeois artist" and gradually ceased his active artistic activity.