Agim Çavdarbasha

Agim Çavdarbasha (born March 24, 1944 in Peć , Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia , † October 20, 1999 in Pristina , Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) was a Kosovar Albanian sculptor .

life and work

Figure group in the Galeria e arteve Agim Çavderbasha in Çagllavica

Agim Çavdarbasha studied at the University of the Arts in Belgrade with Vojislav Vujisić and at the Ljubljana Art Academy with Zdenko Kalin (1911–1990). In 1971 he finished his studies. Since 1970 he has been a member of the Kosovar Academy of Figurative Art . Agim Çavdarbasha accepted a call as professor at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo .

Statues of Çavdarbasha depicting Ymer Prizreni and Abdyl Frashëri are in the League of Prizren exhibition . During the Kosovo war , they were thrown into Bistrica by Serbian police officers . During the riots in March 2004 , Çavdarbasha's studio in Çagllavica, south of Pristina, was burned down. Today it has been restored and is a private museum.

Çavdarbasha is known for groups of figures, for example Çifti / The Couple (1974–1975), Biseda / The Entertainment (1976) and Loja / The Game (1982). The work Gratë e Prishinës / Women from Prishtina (1997) was exhibited in 2017 as part of documenta 14 in the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel.

literature

Dagmar Kassek: Çavdarbasha, Agim . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 388.

Web links

Commons : Agim Çavdarbasha - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ albanian art Agim Çavdarbasha accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)
↑ oral history kosovo Sokol Beqiri accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)
^ Robert Elsie : Historical dictionary of Kosovo (= Historical Dictionaries of Europe . No. 79 ). 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7483-1 , pp. 58 f .
↑ Ministria e Kultures, 50 mijë euro për të konservimin e veprave skulptorit Çavdarbasha. In: Proinformacion. December 5, 2017, Retrieved May 6, 2019 (Albanian).
↑ documenta 14, daybook Agim Çavdarbasha, accessed on May 5, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Çavdarbasha, Agim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kosovar Albanian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peja
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1999
Place of death	Pristina

[1] rt Agim Çavdarbasha accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)

[2] ral history kosovo Sokol Beqiri accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)

[3] Robert Elsie : Historical dictionary of Kosovo (= Historical Dictionaries of Europe . No. 79 ). 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7483-1 , pp. 58 f .

[4] Ministria e Kultures, 50 mijë euro për të konservimin e veprave skulptorit Çavdarbasha. In: Proinformacion. December 5, 2017, Retrieved May 6, 2019 (Albanian).

[5] umenta 14, daybook Agim Çavdarbasha, accessed on May 5, 2019