Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov (Bulgarian: Бенчо Йорданов Обрешков, April 27, 1899, Karnobat – April 8, 1970, Sofia) was a well-known Bulgarian painter.
He graduated under Petko Klissurov and Ivan Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1926 and sculpture below Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925—-1927. Obreshkov returned to Bulgaria in 1927. He was a zealot of the “Native Arts” Union (1927), a zealot of the Union of the New Artists (1931), and its chairman (1937).
The painting by Obreshkov is militant for Bulgarian art of the 1930s and has a special attention to color and form.
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