Čavdar Mutafov and German Expressionism
Abstract
This study considers one of the most radical avant-garde artists in Bulgarian prose in the 20th century: Čavdar Mutafov. It offers a biographical sketch, emphasizing the two periods of his education in Munich (architecture and engineering), and it discusses their aesthetic influences on the writer which then gave form to his artist pursuits. By analyzing Mutafov’s concepts, developed in his critical texts and essays, both manifest and fiction, the author offers proof that these texts are the most important component of his intellectual legacy, profferings of expressionism, secession and neorealism and as representations of their having developed on German soil (in the time and space of an urban setting in Munich). Included in this is a specifically Bulgarian consideration of these philosophical and artistic approaches.
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