Dimitar Gyuzhenov was born on January 26, 1891 in Stara Zagora. His father is the artist Atanas Gyuzhenov. In 1915, he graduated in painting in the class of Prof. Tseno Todorov at the Art Industrial School (today the National Academy of Arts) in Sofia, meanwhile studying for two semesters at the Paris National School of Fine Arts (1913-14). He is known for his paintings on military and historical themes, often used for illustrations in encyclopedias and textbooks on Bulgarian history. Between 1920 and 1933, Dimitar Gyuzhenov taught at the Academy, where he was a professor. Among his students there are Stoyan Venev, Petko Zadgorski and Strahil Titirinov. Paintings by Dimitar Gyuzhenov are exhibited in the National Art Gallery and the National Museum of Military History. One of Dimitar Gyuzhenov's most impressive paintings, "Simeon the Great" (1927), is exhibited in the Presidency of the Republic of Bulgaria.