Andrea Kushi (1884-1959) was born in Shkodra and studied art in Belgrade from 1912 to 1914. In the 1920s, he taught school in Shkodra before moving to Tirana to set up the first art school there (1931-1937). Kushi lived in Korça from 1937 to 1943, where he was in close contact with the painters Vangjush Mio (1891-1957) and Foto Stamo (1916-1989), and in Elbasan from 1944 to 1947, when he moved back to Tirana. He is remembered for his portraits and landscape paintings. Well known among his works are the portraits Bariu me shkop (Shepherd with a Staff) and Portret vajze (Portrait of a Girl)
Robert Eslie
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