site.btaBulgarian Artist Roszen Ruszev Wins Hungarian State Award for Nationalities

The Bulgarian artist in Hungary Roszen Ruszev became the winner of the Hungarian State Award for Nationalities, which is awarded every year on December 18 - Hungary's Nationalities Day - by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Bulgarian News newspaper in Hungary Chief Editor Gabriela Hadzhikostova told BTA on Thursday.

The award honours individuals and organizations for their activities in favour of community life, education, culture, church life, science, media and economic self-organization of nationalities in Hungary. Twelve individuals and one organization were awarded this year.

Roszen Ruszev was awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of art and culture.

Roszen Ruszev was born in Dobrich, Northeastern Bulgaria, on August 22, 1946. In 1967-68 he studied graphic arts at the Art Academy in Sofia. In 1969 he went to Budapest, where he has lived and worked ever since. Since 1976 he has been a member of the Hungarian Artists Association. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Canada, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Netherlands, Gabriela Hadzhikostova said.

He has been actively involved in the cultural life of the Bulgarian community in Hungary for many years. He was a teacher of painting at the Hristo Botev Bulgarian School in Budapest and as such contributed a lot to the education of many generations with a love for Bulgarian culture and painting, and to the development of their aesthetic taste and Bulgarian spirit. 

Rosen Rusev is a long-standing member of the editorial board and artistic editor of the prestigious bilingual culture and social magazine Hemus, founded by the Society of Bulgarians in Hungary in 1991.