- Kole Idromeno
Kolë Idromeno (1860-1939) was an
Albania n painter, sculptor, photographer, architect and engineer.He was born in Shkodra, where he learned the first elements of photography from Pjetër Marubi. In 1876 he stayed for some months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, and then worked in the studio of an Italian painter. When back in Albania (1878), he engaged himself in a number of different activities, working as an architect, sculptor, photographer, scene-painter, engineer and painter. He was the initiator of the first art exhibition in Shkodra (1923) and was represented in the first national art exhibition at Tirana (1931).
He established a very active photographic studio. Idromeno was the first to show moving pictures in Albania (1912). He had kept up a correspondence with Lumiere brothers in Paris.
His most well known work is "Motra Tone". He was the first landscape painter in the modern Albanian painting school ("Courtyard of a House in Shkodra") and pioneered realistic secular painting. His works were represented in international exhibitions, for example, in Budapest (1900) and New York (1939).
His works are held in the
Mezuraj Museum ,Tirana . [ [http://mezuraj.museum/galleries.html mezuraj.museum] ]References
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