Kol\u00eb Idromeno (Nikoll\u00eb), a painter, photographer, and architect, People’s Painter, passed away. He was born in Shkodra in 1860, into the family of the engineer Arsen Idromeno from Arta of Chameria, who had settled in Shkodra after being pursued by the Ottoman authorities. From a young age, he showed noticeable inclinations towards the arts, which he cultivated with the encouragement of the photographer Pietro Marubi. In 1876, he went to Venice, where he attended the Academy of Arts for several months and then worked with a local painter, a friend of his family. He practiced many crafts: besides painting, he also worked in sculpture, theatrical decoration, engineering, furniture making, etc. He was one of the pioneers of the first collective art exhibition in Shkodra (1923) and participated in the first national art exhibition, opened in Tirana in 1931. Kol\u00eb Idromeno had a photographic studio in Shkodra and was the first organizer of film screenings in Albania (1912). He became known abroad for his works exhibited in international exhibitions, such as in Budapest (1900) and New York (1939). Kol\u00eb Idromeno created interesting, descriptive compositions in painting, with a certain naivety about the characteristic life of the region such as “Dasma shkodrane” (\u201cShkodra wedding\u201d) 1920 and with religious subjects, but meticulously and vividly portraying scenes from the everyday life of the people such as “Dy rrug\u00eb” (\u201cTwo roads\u201d) (1886). He excelled particularly in portrait painting such as “Portret fshatari” (\u201cPortrait of a villager\u201d), 1924; “Mbesa” (\u201cThe niece\u201d), 1932). His masterpiece and one of the most distinguished works of Albanian painting is “Motra Tone” (\u201cOur Sister\u201d) (1883), a profound and delicate portrait depicting the social drama of the Shkodra woman. Kol\u00eb Idromeno was the first in Albanian art to create landscapes, which he treated with intense colors, paving the way for secular realistic painting. Kol\u00eb Idromeno worked on the urban planning of Shkodra in the early 20th century and designed a series of public, social, and private buildings in the architectural style of that period, most of which formed the face of the city’s main street. His photographs, as documents of the time, were executed with aesthetic taste. His paintings are preserved in the Art Galleries in Tirana and Shkodra; his photographs and drawings are kept in the State Central Archive. (In the photo: Kole Idromeno, self-portrait, 1931.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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