site.btaExhibition in Sofia Library Marks 125th Birth Anniversary of Renowned Cartoonist Rayko Alexiev
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107 CULTURE - RAYKO ALEXIEV - ANNIVERSARY - EXHIBITION
Exhibition in Sofia Library Marks 125th Birth
Anniversary of Renowned
Cartoonist Rayko Alexiev
Sofia, March 17 (BTA) - A documentary exhibition entitled "The Unknown Rayko Alexiev" opened at the Sofia City Library on March 15 to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of renowned cartoonist Rayko Alexiev. On display are drawings, cartoons and articles published in the "Shturets" [Cricket] satirical newspaper established and run by Alexiev himself.
Rayko Alexiev was a remarkable satirist, journalist, cartoonist and publisher. He was a long-serving President of the Union of Societies of Artists in Bulgaria. In 1932 he founded "Shturets" where he drew cartoons, wrote articles and took care of the distribution. He produced the newspaper from his home until its last issue on September 8, 1944, a day before the coup which swept the communists to power in Bulgaria.
"Shturets" was published in 50,000 copies throughout the 12 years of its life and was the best-seller among similar periodicals in Bulgaria.
Right after the communist coup d'etat, Alexiev was arrested as "an enemy of the State", presumably for his popular cartoons of Stalin. According to some sources, he was beaten to death in Sofia on November 18, 1944. The next year he was sentenced posthumously for anti-Soviet and pro-German propaganda by the so called "People's Court". Co-defendants in the same case were about a hundred other artists, journalists and writers, some of whom had already been killed like Alexiev. His property was confiscated by the State and his books were banned.
The exhibition at the Sofia City Library will be on until March 30. LN/
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LN1801NW.107
107 CULTURE - RAYKO ALEXIEV - ANNIVERSARY - EXHIBITION
Exhibition in Sofia Library Marks 125th Birth
Anniversary of Renowned
Cartoonist Rayko Alexiev
Sofia, March 17 (BTA) - A documentary exhibition entitled "The Unknown Rayko Alexiev" opened at the Sofia City Library on March 15 to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of renowned cartoonist Rayko Alexiev. On display are drawings, cartoons and articles published in the "Shturets" [Cricket] satirical newspaper established and run by Alexiev himself.
Rayko Alexiev was a remarkable satirist, journalist, cartoonist and publisher. He was a long-serving President of the Union of Societies of Artists in Bulgaria. In 1932 he founded "Shturets" where he drew cartoons, wrote articles and took care of the distribution. He produced the newspaper from his home until its last issue on September 8, 1944, a day before the coup which swept the communists to power in Bulgaria.
"Shturets" was published in 50,000 copies throughout the 12 years of its life and was the best-seller among similar periodicals in Bulgaria.
Right after the communist coup d'etat, Alexiev was arrested as "an enemy of the State", presumably for his popular cartoons of Stalin. According to some sources, he was beaten to death in Sofia on November 18, 1944. The next year he was sentenced posthumously for anti-Soviet and pro-German propaganda by the so called "People's Court". Co-defendants in the same case were about a hundred other artists, journalists and writers, some of whom had already been killed like Alexiev. His property was confiscated by the State and his books were banned.
The exhibition at the Sofia City Library will be on until March 30. LN/
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