Zlatka Dabova(1927-1997)

Zlatka Dabova Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, graphic, with the title "Honored Artist". She was born on November 5, 1927 in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. In 1953, she graduated in "graphics" in the Higher Institute of Fine Arts "Nikolay Pavlovich", Sofia in the class of Professor Iliya Beshkov . She worked mainly in the technique lithography and woodcut . Among the topics that are most commonly found in her works are folklore , lifestyle , childhood, motherhood, Renaissance architecture . Her works are in the museum "Pushkin" in Moscow , galleries in Banska Bystrica , Sao Paulo , Dresden and others. 28 of her works are included in private collections in Pazardjik gallery "Stanislav Dospevski" . Zlatka Dabova had illustrated many books by Bulgarian authors, such as Lyudmil Stoyanov , Angel Karaliychev and George Strumski . She was a production design in the plays "Under the Yoke" by Ivan Vazov and "Aesop" by Guilherme Figeyredo. She was a wife of the artist Hristo Neykov . Zlatka Dabova died on May 10, 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria.