Zef Kolombi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zef Kolombi

Albanian painter

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1907

Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1949

Profession: painter

Nationality: Albania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Zef Kolombi

  • Zef Kolombi (March 3, 1907 – January 23, 1949) was an Albanian painter.
  • His father, John, was the owner of an hotel in Sarajevo; he died in 1910, and a year later, his mother died.
  • Kolombi, along with his sister Vera, moved back to Shkodra to live with their grandmother.
  • After the death of his grandmother, the two children were in the care of their godfather, Sokrat Shkreli. In Shkodra, he finished elementary school-orphanage opened by the Austrians, and spent three years in the Jesuit school.
  • He found a devotion to painting, his passion, but with difficulty.
  • He went to Italy and visited museums, art galleries and exhibitions of painting.
  • At the age of 18, Kolombi returned to Shkodër and worked as a clerk in the Hotel Grand. In 1929, after receiving a state scholarship from Hile Mosi, Kolombi departed again for Italy, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
  • Upon completion, he returned to Albania and was appointed drawing teacher in Elbasan, where he spent the next ten years.
  • In 1936, he married and had one son, Julian, and by a second marriage had another son Gjovalinin, while continuing to paint and carry out the tasks of a teacher. Kolombi painted with materials such as cloth, canvas, cardboard and plywood, while most of his work is in oil, using more red, brown, green and white.
  • Kolombi's work Columbus is in the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana.
  • His portfolio consists of 50 paintings and drawings containing realist landscapes (A Harvest, 1947), still-life (Grapes and Pears, 1940) and portraits (Julian, 1946).
  • These paintings were often executed en plein air which are distinguished with a balance of composition and a plethora of colours and tones.He suffered from asthma and tuberculosis in the last two years of his life and died on January 23, 1949.

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