Toma Trifonovski

Toma Trifonovski was born in 1939 in the Kostur village of Drenichevo, to a family of Macedonian Bulgarians. His early childhood was marked by the Civil War in Greece – at the age of 11 he was taken out of the country in the group of refugee children. Through the Red Cross, his parents found him in Czechoslovakia. Later, Trifonovski studied painting in Hungary with Professor Endre Domanovski. In the early 1960s, the family settled in Bulgaria and Trifonovski graduated in decorative and monumental painting at the Academy of Arts in 1966. The artist lived and worked in Pleven, Vratsa and Sofia.
Trifonovski is known as a master of female portraiture, the nude, and still life. From the 1970s until the end of his life and creative path, he was one of the leading Bulgarian authors in the field of painting.
His works are owned by the Petit Palais Museum of Modern Art in Geneva, the National Art Gallery, all museums in the country, private collections in Bulgaria and abroad - Italy, Germany, Canada, Russia, France, Austria, the Republic of Macedonia, Denmark and Cyprus.
Died in 2010.