Prof. Boris Dankov Ivanov
biographical data
August 19, 1906 – born in the village of Kazachevo, Loveshko;
1920 – his family moved to Lovech;
1926 – graduated from the State Pedagogical School, Lovech;
- enrols in the Art Academy in Sofia;
1931 - graduated in "painting" in the class of Prof. Nikola Marinov;
1931 – 1932 – intern-teacher at the Third High School for Boys in Sofia;
1932 - 1933 - teacher in the village of Vulkan and principal of a primary school in the village of Staichovtsi - Transko;
1933 - 1946 - drawing teacher at the Tsar Boris III High School in Lovech;
1946 - 1949 - drawing teacher at the Second and Third Men's High School in Sofia;
1949-1950 - Chief Inspector of Painting at the Ministry of Public Education;

1951 - 1970 - teacher, docent, professor of "painting" at the Academy of Arts in Sofia, advisor in the "Higher Education" department, KNIK;

1960-1964 and 1966-1970 - Deputy Rector of the Academy of Arts in Sofia
1970 - retired
1997 – died in Sofia.
Author of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, sculptures, monumental ceramics, murals, figural compositions. He created the paintings "Kubrat and his sons" and "Three against three hundred".
An entire art gallery was created in Durankulak for his figural compositions reflecting the rural riots of 1900 in Durankulak and Shabla.