Kiril Shivarov (1887–1938) was one of the representatives of European academic schooling in the Bulgarian sculpture of the first half of the 20th century. Within his relatively short life and creative path, he produced a plastic heritage diverse in type and genre.In 1910, he graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Prague. After returning to Varna, he created ornamental reliefs and figural compositions in the Secession style for the façades of many public and private buildings. In 1920, he arranged the first independent sculpture exhibition in BulgariaFrom 1920 to 1923, he specialised in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During that period, he created easel compositions combining the emotional states of the images, a characteristic of Symbolism, with the tendency of generalising the forms. For his achievements, he received the sculpture award for 1924 from the Ministry of National Enlightenment.In the 1930s, Kiril Shivarov either participated in the realisation, or was himself the creator, of some of the large-scale projects of the synthesis of architecture and sculpture in Sofia, Plovdiv and Burgas.