Svetlin Rusev

He taught at the Higher School of Economics N. Pavlovich "- Professor (1975).

Chairman of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in the Period 1973 - 1985

Between 1982 and 1984 he was the first vice-president of the Culture Committee.

From 1985 to 1988 he was director of the National Art Gallery.

Between 1976 and 1988 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Svetlin Rusev is a member of the Parliament in a number of National Assemblies until 1989 and with the BSP list at the Seventh Grand National Assembly in 1990. At that time he was a member of the Supreme Council of BSP.

A true member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2003

Honorary Doctor of Shumen University.

Corresponding member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin (1983). Honorary President of AEAF in Paris (1982). Honorary member of Nika Kai, Japan (1984). Honorary member of "Kunsthirhaus", Vienna (1985).

Awards and prizes

Laureate of the Dimitrov Prize (1969). He has won many awards for art, including the Grand Prize of the Union of Bulgarian Artists (1986), the Prize "Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master" (1987), the name of Kiril Petrov (1988), the prize for portrait Radom - "Gabriel Olivier" - Monaco.

He was honored with a National Folk Art.

Winner of the Paisii Hilendarski State Prize.

Creativity

Svetlin Rusev announces awards for young artists

He works as a painter and monumentist. From 1961 he participated in common art exhibitions and representative exhibitions of Bulgarian art abroad. Independent exhibitions in Sofia (1963, 1967, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1986) and abroad: Moscow, Leningrad, Mexico, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, Berlin, Vienna.

His works are exhibited at the National Art Gallery in Sofia and are part of many art galleries and private collections in Bulgaria and abroad.

More important monumental and decorative works:

"Rodina" - fresco (sko) lobby of Central Railway Station Sofia, arch. Milko Bechev (1976)

"Bulgaria" - mural painting, size 17.30 / 5.10 m, recreation hall for officials and delegations, People's Palace of Culture "Lyudmila Zhivkova" (National Palace of Culture), Sofia, (1981)

Mural paintings in the narthex and icons in front of the altar of the church of Vanga "St. Petka Bulgarska" in Rupite (1994).