Dimitar Avramovski–Pandilov (; ) (aka ''Dimitar Pandilov''; 1 March 1898 in

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– 26 July 1963) is considered the first impressionist painter, the founder of modern Macedonian art.

Education and career

He was born in Tresonče, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire as Dimitar Pandilov Avramov in the family of the

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revolutionary Pandil Avramov. He finished his studies in the

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in 1924. Afterwards he worked in Sofia. In the period 1927 - 1928 he specialized in Paris. From 1928 to 1943 he lived in the village of

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, working as an art teacher. After the annexation of Yugoslav Macedonia from Bulgaria during WWII, he returned to his homeland. Pandilov collaborated with the Bulgarian authorities and was a mayor of the village of

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and then of

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. At that time, his father Pandil Avramov received a Bulgarian national pension as a meritorious fighter for the liberation of Macedonia. After the War he became a teacher at the Skopje high school "Josip Broz Tito". He was one of the founders of the Association of the painters of

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. He died at the Skopje earthquake in 1963.

Painting style

The style of his soft, warm and lyrical palette fluctuates between poetic realism and neo-impressionism. His paintings include scenes from traditional life, landscapes, urban panoramas, still lifes, portraits and nudes. He was the first Macedonian painter with an academic degree who departed from the fresco-painting tradition.

Accomplishments

He is regarded the first Macedonian impressionists in modern North Macedonia. As an artist and pedagogue he made a considerable contribution in the formation of many generations of young artists. He is considered also a Bulgarian painter in Bulgaria in his early period.Димитър Стойков, Корени, Учителят Пандилев разказва за хан Крум и рисува гроздобер, Уроците по българско родолюбие на художника от Македония
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References

External links

Museum of Contemporary Art - Dimitar Avramovski-Pandilov
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