Andrea Kushi

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Andrea Kushi (* 1884 in Shkodra , † 1959 in Tirana ) was an Albanian painter .

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Kushi was one of the most important representatives of the older generation of Albanian painters. He was born in Shkodra in 1884 . There he spent his childhood and received his first impulses from the work of the famous Albanian painter Kolë Idromeno . He studied art in Belgrade between 1912 and 1914 , but the outbreak of the First World War forced him to interrupt his studies. It was not until 1920 that Kushi was able to successfully complete it. He returned to Albania and became an art teacher in the grammar school of Elbasan and later of Tirana .

Kushi devoted himself to training young painters. In 1931 he moved to Tirana, where he started the country's first official drawing course in the same year. From this a few months later in 1932 the first art history school in Albania ( Shkolla e vizatimit ) developed. Between 1937 and 1943 the artist lived in Korça and there came into contact with other painters such as Vangjush Mio and Foto Stamo . In 1944 Kushi lived in Elbasan before finally moving to Tirana in 1947.

Andrea Kushi was one of the organizers of the first national art exhibition in Albania, which took place in May 1931 in the Café Kursal of Tirana. The success of this exhibition led him and other painters to found the Friends of the Art Society (Shoqnia Miqt 'e Artit) , which had the goal of building a national gallery .

Works

Kushi's paintings consist mainly of portraits and landscapes. In the portraits, the inner workings of the characters are depicted, often with the feeling of anxiety and anxiety accentuated by the difficulties of the time in which he lived. His works Portret vajze (Portrait of a girl) and Bariu me shkop (Shepherd with staff) are very famous .

Paintings by Kushi can be seen in the National Art Gallery of Tirana and the Galleries of Elbasan and Shkodra.

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personal data
SURNAME Kushi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Shkodra
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Tirana