Sotir Capo

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Sotir Capo (born June 10, 1934 in Berat ; † March 3, 2012 in Philadelphia ) was an Albanian painter .

Capo received his artistic training in Tirana , where he attended the "Jordan Misja" art school from 1949 to 1953 and studied at the art college from 1960 to 1965. From 1955 he worked for five years as a set designer at the Kulturhaus in his home town of Berat. Later he taught in Berat as an art teacher and was involved as deputy secretary in the regional association of writers and artists. Overall, Capo worked for over 40 years in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania as a painter and art teacher in Berat and Tirana. On May 28, 1979 he was awarded the title "Honored Artist" ( Albanian  Artist i Merituar ). He also received the Naim Frashëri Medal. In 1996 he and his family moved to Philadelphia, United States , where he died in March 2012 at the age of 77.

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Capo mainly created oil paintings as well as pastels, watercolors and wall paintings. In his works, influenced by socialist realism , he addressed the war (including oil painting Shkolla partizane , 1969) as well as work and everyday socialist life in Albania.

The oil painting Punonjësia e telave (German Kabelwerkerin , English Electric Wire Maker ) from 1969, a painting of socialist realism by Sotir Capo, was shown at documenta 14 in Athens in 2017 . The work is now in the National Art Gallery in Tirana . Also part of the same collection is Capo's oil painting Mjelësja (1974).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sotir Capo, mjeshtri profesionist i ngjyrave. In: tradita.org. December 10, 2013, accessed May 5, 2019 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ documenta 14, daybook Sotir Capo, accessed on May 5, 2019
  3. ↑ artmagazine revaluations and revaluations accessed on May 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Capo, Sotir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berat , Albania
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2012
Place of death Philadelphia , United States