Photo by
Brad Reynolds, S.J.
Short painter’s
Biography
DORA NIKOLOVA
BITTAU has graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in
and costume designer. The artist has worked in cinema,
television and major theaters in
sets and costumes for over 250 television programs, 17 feature films
(Bulgarian, Hungarian, Italian and Russian
co-productions), over 50 theatrical shows by classical and contemporary authors, such
as Shakespeare, Schiller,
Brecht, Lorca, Goldoni, Gogol, Tolstoy, Coldwell, Bulgakov,
She has also worked on 10 animated films.
Other
activities: fashion designer, preservation and restoration of murals, paintings,
book illustrations,humoristic
graphic art,
tapestries, projects for publicity posters, metalplastics,
stained glass windows... She wrote exhibition
reviews for the
Bulgarian magazine “Art”, fashion and films articles, published drawings and
caricatures.
Her work has appeared in over 90 exhibitions of paintings, set and costume design, puppets,
humoristic graphic
art, etc., in countries such as
(exhibitions-under construction)
She has worked
at the:
·
FASHION HOUSE “Rila”, Sofia-as costume designer.
·
·
BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, Boiana in:
Animation
Studios - (under construction)
Feature
Film Studios – as production and costume designer (under construction)
·
BULGARIAN
NATIONAL TELEVISION – as head scenographer for the television theatre for the young.
·
TV theatre
(under construction)
TV
theatre for the young (under construction)
· MAIN THEATRES in
PUBLIC PLACES:
·
· The Chapel of St. Ignatius Seattle
University,
· The
· Copley Cript
Chapel, Copley Hall,
· Novitiate,
·
Madonna
della Strada Chapel Regis University, Denver, Colorado;
·
·
and other places.
PRIVATE
COLLECTIONS:
“I don’t know
where many of my paintings are. It’s impossible for me to remember all the
theatre and television
shows for which I’ve created sets and thousands of
costumes, without taking even one photo and without leaving
a trace. In these years of frenetic work, it has not
crossed my mind to make a note where, what and with whom I
worked. I also used to forget to take the honorary that I
deserved. Since the beginning of my career I was working
for free, feeling uneasy to receive rewards for something
that was giving me so much joy and satisfaction”.
Dora
Nikolova Bittau
“Dora’s
paintings are the synthesis of the most archaic and vivid static world of the
Byzantine iconography tradition.
She represent this tradition in the newest manner of today’s
expressionism and surrealism”.
Oscar Magnan,S.J.,PhD
(Full Professor
in the Fine Art Faculty of St. Peter’s
The artist lives in
She is married and has a daughter Polina Bittau (
The page is under
construction. Follows:
Filmografhy, Television, Theatre, Paintings, Exhibition , articles and others….