Georgi Mashev was born on 1 January 1887 in Pazardzhik. He studied fifth grade in his native town of Pazardzhik, but graduated the First Men’s High School in Sofia in 1906. In the same year, the autumn, he was a student at the School of Painting in Sofia today National Academy of Art). His first lecturer is Prof. Petko Klisurov. In 1908 he was expelled from the School because of a conflict with Prof. Klisurov from the conservative method of teaching. In 1908, he left for St. Petersburg, where he enrolled in the Academy of Arts for a year, and from 1908 to 1910 he went to Belgium and was accepted as a student at the Painting Department at the Brussels Academy of Art in the class of Professor Edmond Richard. He again studied at the School of Painting in Sofia and 1912 graduated in the Painting Department in the studio of Prof. Ivan Markvichka, Stefan Ivanov and Ivan Angelov. In the years before the wars, he collaborated with cartoons in a number of Sofia newspapers such as Balkan Tribune, Bulgar, and Smyk with sharp cartoons against Ferdinand’s political actions. He has an exhibition in September 1915 in Sofia, which the writer Konstantin Konstantinov remembers as having passed with great success. During this period, between 1915 and 1918, Georgi Mashev was appointed as a Military Artist of the Horse Division. His paintings with military stories are included in the exhibition of Bulgarian artists in Berlin. In 1921, he suffered from tuberculosis, but he outweighed the disease and worked hard. After the end of the wars he lives, works and works at the Parents’ Mother High School. He is involved in the newly established South Bohemian Artists Association and actively participates in his initiatives, he organizes solo exhibitions in Sofia, Pazardjik, Rousse and Plovdiv. From 1923 to 1937 he worked as an artist in the Ministry of Education in Sofia. A particularly important event in the creative life of Georgi Mashev was his initiative to leave in 1930 in Paris and the following year his residency was accepted by the jury for participation in the most significant European exhibition “Art Salon” of the Society of French Humor Artists. He returned and worked in Bulgaria in 1932 and until 1946, when his health deteriorated sharply and fatally. After two severe stomach and duodenal ulcer surgery he died in the Alexandrovska hospital on August 16, 1946. In 1968 he was posthumously proclaimed an Honorary Citizen of the town of Pazardzhik. In 2007, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of his birth, the Sofia City Art Gallery staged an exhibition with his paintings gathered from all over the country.