Bukurosh Sejdini, the Albanian painter, passed away. He was born in Elbasan, in 1916. Bukurosh Sejdini, after graduating from the School of Drawing in Tirana, attended the Academy of Arts in Bucharest, Romania (1937-1939). He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Florence, Italy. Sejdini was an active participant in the illegal anti-fascist movement in Albania. He was arrested and imprisoned several times by the Italian fascists. The painter Sejdini, after the war, worked as a drawing teacher at the pedagogical secondary school in his hometown. The artist’s creativity is dominated by paintings that reflect important figures of the Albanian National Renaissance, but above all, heroes and important leaders of the war and the Albanian Communist Party. In his paintings, Sejdini used realistic academic tools to service art commissioned by the government. He holds the titles “Merited Painter” and “Merited Teacher”. (In the photo: Sejdin’s work “Dawn of November 17 in Tirana, 1944”, 1957, oil on canvas,)
Text: Ylli Drishti, 100 years of Tirana in painting; 1920–2020 , “Mediaprint”, Tirana, 2020, page 35.
Photo: © Ylli Drishti
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