Abdurrahim Buza
Abdurrahim Buza (born December 22, 1905 in Skopje , Ottoman Empire , today North Macedonia ; † November 7, 1986 , Tirana , Albania ) was an Albanian painter and university professor .
Life
After losing his parents at the age of nine, Buza grew up in their native Gjakova in Kosovo . After going to Albania, he received his first education in Shkodra with the help of Bajram Curri . He then attended today's Qemal Stafa High School in Tirana and from 1923 to 1928 the Shkolla Normale in Elbasan . During his school days there he took an active part in the so-called Democratic Revolution of June 1924, which was suppressed with Serbian help by Ahmed Zogu , among others .
The Albanian government granted Buza a scholarship to study the arts in Italy after graduating from school. Together with the sculptor Odhise Paskali he attended the Accademia Albertina in Turin for a year and also studied with Ferro Milone . He then continued his studies in painting at the Accamemia di Belle Arti in Florence until 1933 . One of his teachers in Florence was Galileo Chini . He graduated in the subjects of monumental and decorative painting.
After his return to Albania, Buza became a teacher of drawing at the Harry Fultz High School and founded the first school for the arts in Albania, the Drawing Artistic , with the Albanian painter A. Kushi , the sculptor Odhise Paskali and the Italian painter Mario Ridola School in Tirana. He taught at this school and continued to work as a painter. In 1935 he showed naked people for the first time in Albania. This was a sensation because back then in Albania nudity was still considered immoral and not socially accepted.
Buza's first major exhibition took place after the Second World War in April 1945. In the same year he illustrated the first textbook for primary schools in Albanian. From 1947 until his retirement in 1966 he was a teacher at the Jordan Misja Art School in Tirana. He painted and drew well into old age. Today his paintings are shown in the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, among others .
Awards
- 1960: Meritorious painter .
- 1978: Painter of the People .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buza, Abdurrahim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Albanian painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Skopje , Ottoman Empire , today: North Macedonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1986 |
| Place of death | Tirana , Albania |