Ekaterina Savova-Nenova (1901–1980) was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov

Ivan Nenov

Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia. She studied with Nikola Marinov at the Academy of Arts in Sofia, graduated in 1925, exhibited regularly with the Union of Bulgarian Artists

Union of Bulgarian Artists

Union of Bulgarian Artists is a non-profit association for Bulgarian artists which can trace its routes back to 1893. It currently has about 2700 members - artists and critics from all generations - drawn from the many fields of the representational arts. The mission of the UBA is to protect the...

, and had three individual shows in 1943, 1946, and 1958. Her paintings are exhibited in the Philippopolis Art Gallery in Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 and the National Art Gallery

National Art Gallery (Bulgaria)

The National Art Gallery is Bulgaria's national gallery and houses over 50,000 pieces of Bulgarian art. It is located on Battenberg Square in the capital city of Sofia, occupying most of the historic and imposing edifice of the former royal palace of Bulgaria, having been established in 1934 and...

in Sofia.

Additional reading

• Ekaterina Savova-Nenova, Petŭr Dachev. Ekaterina Savova-Nenova, Bŭlgarski Khudozhnik, 1966.