Georges Papazov

Georges (George) Papazov was born in 1894 in Bulgaria and died in 1972 in Vence, France. In 78 years he walked a long way from Yambol to the major European capitals. He lived in Prague, Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Paris, where he settled in 1924. According to the "Dictionary of Surrealism" by the writer and art historian Edouard Jager, published in Paris in 1982, "Papazov is undoubtedly one of the predecessors of what we today call "abstract surrealism" of the mid-1920s, alongside Miró, Ernst, Malkin and Masson". His work is also associated with expressionism, cubism, fauvism and dadaism. His endless fantasy assigns him journeys in different stylistic directions and in diverse areas of consciousness. As difficult as it is to categorize him in just one movement, Georges Papazov certainly carries the spirit of discovery and experimentation of the first half of the twentieth century.